LUCA OLIVA
I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Houston, a Carnegie-designated Tier One institution, where I direct the Liberal Studies program and oversee around 200 students. I teach theories of knowledge and truth, as well as ethics. In recent years, I was a lecturer at the University of Vienna (2019) and the Institute Vienna Circle (2015, 2017), an academic visitor at the University of Oxford (2016, 2017), and a visiting professor at the Universities of Insubria (2024) and Bergamo (2015, 2022) in Italy.
My research interests lie in epistemology and philosophy of mathematics but also involve ethics and metaethics. I have especially published on issues of analytic Kantianism and Rickert's abstract objects and normativity. Noteworthy is also my inquiry into evil. Here is my CV.
In 2023, I launched the Ethics and Normativity Seminar Series at the University of Houston, which I currently lead with Luis Oliveira and Robert Tierney.
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In June 2025, I'll deliver the 7th Arthur Pap-Lecture at the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna.