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Comparative Cultural Studies

Luca Oliva

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Milan
Liberal Studies, Program Director

Office: Science and Research Building 2, Suite 122C
Webpage: lucaoliva.net

 

Biographical Summary

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Houston, a Carnegie-designated Tier One institution. I direct the Liberal Studies program and oversee approximately 200 students. My teaching focuses on theories of knowledge and truth, as well as ethics. In recent years, I have served as a lecturer at the University of Vienna (2019) and the Institute Vienna Circle (2015, 2017). I was also 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 include epistemology and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as ethics and metaethics. I have primarily published on topics related to analytic Kantianism and Rickert's abstract objects and normativity. Notably, I have also explored the concept of evil. Since 2024, I have co-organized the Reconstructing Carnap webinar series affiliated with the University of Florence. In 2023, I initiated the Ethics and Normativity Seminar Series at the University of Houston, which I now lead alongside Luis Oliveira and Robert Tierney. For further information, including my CV, publications, teaching, and events, please visit my webpage: www.lucaoliva.net.