Brad Rives

Professor

Office: Leonard 505G

Email: rives@iup.edu

Personal website

Education

• PhD, University of Maryland
• BA, Illinois Wesleyan University

Courses

• PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy
• PHIL 101 Critical Thinking
• PHIL 122 Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHIL 360 Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 390 Philosophy of Human Nature
• PHIL 420 Knowledge and Reality
• PHIL 460 Philosophy of Language
• HNRC 101, 201 Honors College Core

Professional Interests

• Philosophy of Psychology
• Philosophy of Mind
• Metaphysics

Select Publications

• "Conceptual Role Semantics and Rationality." Acta Analytica (2018) 33: 271-289.
• "Concepts and Analytic Intuitions." Analytic Philosophy (2016) 57: 285-314.
• "Which Are the Genuine Properties?" Metaphilosophy (2015) 46: 104-126.
• "Concept Cartesianism, Concept Pragmatism, and Frege Cases." Philosophical Studies (2009) 144: 211-238.
• "Why Dispositions are (Still) Distinct from their Bases and Causally Impotent." American Philosophical Quarterly (2005) 42: 19-31.

Select Presentations

• "Can the Analytic Data Be Explained Away?" American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2009.
• "Informational Atomism and Frege Cases." Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2007.
• "An Empirical Defense of Recognitional Concepts." American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2006.