Bradley Rettler
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Professor of Philosophy, Director of Bitcoin Research Institute
Employment
Director, Bitcoin Research Institute, 2025-current
Professor, 2025-current
Associate Professor, 2022-2025
Assistant Professor, 2018-2022
Education
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame (2014)
Courses Taught at UW:
- Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Philosophy and Science Fiction
- Philosophy as a Way of Life
- Introduction to Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Language
- Money
- Metaphysics
Selected Articles
10. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: Money Without State
2021, Philosophy Compass
9. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: The Moral Landscape of Monetary Design
2021, Philosophy Compass
8. Ways of Thinking about Ways of Being
2021, Analysis
7. Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias
2020, Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge
6. Quantification in the Ontology Room
2019, dialectica
5. Mereological Nihilism and Puzzles about Material Objects
2018, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
2018, Philosophy Compass
2017, Canadian Journal of Philosophy
2. Object
2017, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
1. The General Truthmaker View of Ontological Commitment
2016, Philosophical Studies
Selected Public Philosophy
4. Bitcoin is For Anyone -- Left or Right (Archived here)
USA Today
3. Governments Should Invest in the Bitcoin Network
Newsweek
2. The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Bitcoin (PDF here)
Institute for Art and Ideas
1. Why Bitcoin Needs Philosophy
CoinDesk
