Professor
Office: Leonard 505G
Email: rives@iup.edu
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.