Bradley Rettler
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Wyoming
Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency
Academic Writing
Teaching
Fall 2024 - Honors Seminar: Money
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 2022, 2020, 2013, Fall 2018 - Introduction to Philosophy
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
16. Presentism, Actualism, and Fatalism
2023. Metaphysics 6(1), p.13–23
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Forthcoming. The Routledge Handbook on Properties, ed Anna-Sofia
Maurin and A.R.J. Fisher
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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)
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12. Ways of Thinking about Ways of Being
2021. Analysis 80 (4): 712–722
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11. Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias
2020. Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge
(ed Kevin McCain & Scott Stapleford)
(with Lindsay Rettler)
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10. Quantification in the Ontology Room
2019. dialectica 73 (4): 563-585
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9. Bundle Theory and the Identity of Indiscernibles (a dialogue)
2019. Res Philosophica 96 (4): 495-508
(with Philip Swenson)
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8. Mereological Nihilism and Puzzles about Material Objects
2018. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (4): 842-868
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2018. Philosophy Compass 13 (9):e12517
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2017. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (5): 631-655
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2017. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(with Andrew M Bailey)
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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)
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3. The General Truthmaker View of Ontological Commitment
2016. Philosophical Studies 173 (5): 1405-1425
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2. Review of Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide
2015. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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1. McTaggart and Indexing the Copula
2010. Philosophical Studies 158 (3): 431-434
Public Philosophy
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Writing
9. Bitcoin is For Anyone -- Left or Right (Archived here)
USA Today, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
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8. Bitcoin Stands Apart from other Cryptocurrencies
Cointelegraph, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
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7. Governments Should Invest in the Bitcoin Network
Newsweek, with Andrew M Bailey
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CoinDesk
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5. Another Way to Think about Bitcoin's Value
Bitcoin Magazine
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4. The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Bitcoin (PDF here)
Institute for Art and Ideas
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Bitcoin Magazine, with Andrew M Bailey
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2. On Confidently Misunderstanding Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine
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1. Why Bitcoin Needs Philosophy
CoinDesk, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
Speaking
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14. "Why We Make Bad Decisions", on FML FPL
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13. On What Bitcoin Did
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12. On the Progressive Bitcoiner Podcast
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11. On Julie Mason Mornings
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10. On What is Money (or podcast version)
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9. On This Week in Bitcoin (or podcast version)
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8. On the Digital Money Advisor Podcast
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7. How Bitcoin Can Help the Poor, with Scott Melker
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6. On the Cigars and Crypto Podcast
5. On the Smart People Sh*t Podcast
4. On The Breakdown Podcast
3. On the Open to Truth 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
under contract with Routledge
(with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)
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1. The Problem of Divine Personality
under contract with Cambridge University Press
(with Andrew M Bailey)