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LUCA OLIVA

I'm an assistant professor at the University of Houston, a Carnegie-designated Tier One institution. Here, I direct the Liberal Studies program.

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 analytic Kantianism and related issues, specifically concerning analyticity and apriority (Rickert, Wittgenstein, Pap, Carnap).

In 2025, I delivered the 8th Arthur Pap Lecture at the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna. Before that, I was a visiting professor at the Universities of Insubria (2024) and Bergamo (2015, 2022) in Italy, a lecturer at the University of Vienna (2019) and at the Institute Vienna Circle (2015, 2017), and an academic visitor at the University of Oxford (2016, 2017), sponsored by Timothy Williamson.

I co-lead two seminar series, Reconstructing Carnap and Ethics and Normativity. I teach theories of knowledge and truth, as well as normative ethics.  Here is my CV.

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News

Topoi has accepted our proposal for a special issue on Capacities-First Philosophy. Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum and I will co-edit the volume, which will be published in fall 2026. The Call For Papers is now available.

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