Bradley Rettler, University of Wyoming
Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency
Professor of Philosophy
Director of the Bitcoin Research Institute
Academic Writing
Teaching
Fall 2025 - Seminar: Free Will
Fall 2024 - Honors Seminar: Money
Fall 2024, 2018, Spring 2022, 2020, 2013 - Introduction to Philosophy
Spring 2024, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, Fall 2017, 2016, 2015 - Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2024, Fall 2021, 2020 - Philosophy and Science Fiction
Fall 2023, 2021, 2018, 2014, Spring 2018 - Metaphysics
Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2019 - Critical Thinking
Fall 2022, 2020 - First Year Seminar: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Fall 2022, 2019 - Philosophy of Language
Spring 2021 - Seminar: Money
Spring 2020 - Seminar: Divine Hiddenness
Spring 2019 - Seminar: Metametaphysics
Spring 2018 - Philosophy and Human Nature
Fall 2017 - Philosophical Ethics
Spring 2016 - Logic
Spring 2014, Fall 2013 – Moral Problems
2025. Faith and Philosophy
(with Andrew M Bailey)
17. The Presence of Evil and the Absence of God (pdf download)
2024. The Philosophy of Ted Chiang, ed David Friedell
2024. The Routledge Handbook on Properties, ed Anna-Sofia
Maurin and A.R.J. Fisher
15. Presentism, Actualism, and Fatalism
2023. Metaphysics 6(1), p.13–23
14. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: Money Without State
2021. Philosophy Compass 16 (11): 1-15
(with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)
13. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: The Moral Landscape of Monetary Design
2021. Philosophy Compass 16 (11): 1-15
(with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)
12. Ways of Thinking about Ways of Being
2021. Analysis 80 (4): 712–722
11. Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias
2020. Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge
(ed Kevin McCain & Scott Stapleford)
(with Lindsay Rettler)
10. Quantification in the Ontology Room
2019. dialectica 73 (4): 563-585
9. Bundle Theory and the Identity of Indiscernibles (a dialogue)
2019. Res Philosophica 96 (4): 495-508
(with Philip Swenson)
8. Mereological Nihilism and Puzzles about Material Objects
2018. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (4): 842-868
2018. Philosophy Compass 13 (9):e12517
2017. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (5): 631-655
2017. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(with Andrew M Bailey)
4. A Possible Worlds Solution to the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer
2017. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (1): 179-186
(with Ryan Matthew Parker)
3. The General Truthmaker View of Ontological Commitment
2016. Philosophical Studies 173 (5): 1405-1425
2. Review of Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide
2015. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
1. McTaggart and Indexing the Copula
2010. Philosophical Studies 158 (3): 431-434
Public Philosophy
Writing
14. Bitcoin CoinJoins Protect Democracy
Forbes
13. Bitcoin can Protect Freedom and Help Win Elections
Newsweek
12. Bitcoin's Halving is a Major Spectacle - That's the Whole Point
Blockworks
11. Is Bitcoin Really a Bubble?
CogX
American Philosophical Association Blog
9. Bitcoin is For Anyone -- Left or Right (Archived here)
USA Today, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
8. Bitcoin Stands Apart from other Cryptocurrencies
Cointelegraph, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
7. Governments Should Invest in the Bitcoin Network
Newsweek, with Andrew M Bailey
CoinDesk
5. Another Way to Think about Bitcoin's Value
Bitcoin Magazine
4. The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Bitcoin (PDF here)
Institute for Art and Ideas
Bitcoin Magazine, with Andrew M Bailey
2. On Confidently Misunderstanding Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine
1. Why Bitcoin Needs Philosophy
CoinDesk, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
Speaking
11. "Bitcoin Demystified", Sublette County BOCES
10. "Why We Make Bad Decisions", on FML FPL
9. On What Bitcoin Did
8. On the Progressive Bitcoiner Podcast
7. On Julie Mason Mornings
6. On What is Money (or podcast version)
5. On the Digital Money Advisor Podcast
4. How Bitcoin Can Help the Poor, with Scott Melker
3. On The Breakdown Podcast
2. Religious Disagreement -- a video for WY middle/high schoolers
1. Introduction to Bitcoin -- a video for WY middle/high schoolers
Books
Articles
2. Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin
2024. Routledge
(with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)
1. The Problem of Divine Personality
2024. Cambridge University Press
(with Andrew M Bailey)