Bradley Rettler
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Wyoming
Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Cryptocurrency
Academic Writing
Teaching
Fall 2021 - Metaphysics
Fall 2021 - Philosophy and Science Fiction
Spring 2021 - Seminar: Money
Spring 2021 - Philosophy of Religion
Fall 2020 - First Year Seminar: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Fall 2020 - Philosophy and Science Fiction
Spring 2020 - Seminar in Divine Hiddenness
Spring 2020 - Introduction to Philosophy
Fall 2019 - Critical Thinking
Fall 2019 - Philosophy of Language
Spring 2019 - Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2019 - Metaphysics Seminar: Metametaphysics
Fall 2018 - Metaphysics
Fall 2018 - Introduction to Philosophy
Spring 2018 - Metaphysics
Spring 2018 - Philosophy and Human Nature
Fall 2017 - Philosophical Ethics
Spring 2017 - Philosophy of Religion
Fall 2016 - Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2016 - Logic
Fall 2015 – Philosophy of Religion
Fall 2014 – Metaphysics
Spring 2014 – Moral Problems
Fall 2013 – Moral Problems
Spring 2013 – Introduction to Philosophy
14. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: Money Without State
forthcoming in Philosophy Compass
(with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)
13. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: The Moral Landscape of Monetary Design
forthcoming in Philosophy Compass
(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. Governments Should Invest in the Bitcoin Network
Newsweek, with Andrew M Bailey
13. Hard Forks are Fan Fiction
CoinDesk
12. Another Way to Think about Bitcoin's Value
Bitcoin Magazine
11. The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Bitcoin (PDF here)
Institute for Art and Ideas
Bitcoin Magazine, with Andrew M Bailey
9. Why Bitcoin Needs Philosophy
CoinDesk, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke
Speaking
8. On the Digital Money Advisor Podcast
7. How Bitcoin Can Help the Poor, with Scott Melker
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