
LUCA OLIVA
I'm a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Houston, a Carnegie-designated Tier One institution. Here, I direct the Liberal Studies program and teach theories of knowledge and truth, as well as normative ethics.
I specialize in epistemology and philosophy of mathematics, but I'm also interested in metaethics (especially the nature of evil). I've primarily published on issues of analytic Kantianism, including Rickert's abstract objects and normativity.
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.
Since 2024, I’ve co-organized the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series, which is affiliated with the University of Florence. In 2023, I also started the Ethics and Normativity Seminar Series at the University of Houston. Here is my CV.
News
On June 7, I shall deliver the 7th Arthur Pap-Lecture at the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna.
I've also been invited to speak for the thirteenth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) at the University of Jena (July 23-6).