
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 logic and epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and Analytic Kantianism. I've primarily published on apriority and analyticity (Kant, Rickert, Wittgenstein, Pap, Carnap).
I received the Fulbright Specialist Award (2026) and delivered the 8th Arthur Pap Lecture at the Institute Vienna Circle (2025). I lectured at the University of Vienna (2019) and conducted seminars at the Institute Vienna Circle (2015, 2017), among other teaching positions. Also, I was 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.
News
I've been selected to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a three-year tenure, peer-reviewed by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning.
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.