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Eric J. Loomis

Eric J. Loomis

Associate Dean
Early Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Classical Indian Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Early Analytic Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Classical Indian Philosophy
  • Logic

Bio

My areas of philosophical interest include metaphysics and epistemology, the history of analytic philosophy, and classical Indian philosophy. I am the co-author, with Cory Juhl, of Analyticity (Routledge, 2010), and have authored a few papers on various topics, mostly concerning Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine.

Publications

Book:

  • Juhl, Cory and Loomis, Eric. Analyticity. Routledge, 2010.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

  • Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淎 Priority and Necessity鈥� In H. J. Glock and J. Hymann (eds), A Companion to Wittgenstein. Blackwell: 2014 (forthcoming).

  • Loomis, Eric J. and Juhl, Cory. 鈥淎nalytic Truth鈥�. In G. Russell and D. Graff Fara (eds) The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Routledge Press. 2012.

  • Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淐riteria鈥�. In K. Jolley (ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. Dublin: Acumen Press. 2010.

  • Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淐riteria and Defeasibility: When Good Evidence is not Good Enough鈥�, in D. Moyal-Sharrock (ed.) Perspicuous Presentations: Wittgenstein鈥檚 Philosophy of Psychology and Sociology. New York: Palgrave, 2007.

  • Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淓mpirical Equivalence in the Quine-Carnap Debate鈥�, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2006: 87, 499-508.

  • Juhl, Cory F., and Loomis, Eric J. "Conventionalism", in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science. S. Sarkar and J. Pfeifer, eds. Routledge, 2006.

  • Juhl, Cory F., and Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淎nalyticity鈥�, in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science. S. Sarkar and J. Pfeifer, eds. Routledge, 2006.

  • Loomis, Eric J. and Juhl, Cory F. "Explication", in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science. S. Sarkar and J. Pfeifer, eds. Routledge, 2006.

  • Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淟ogical Form and Propositional Function in the Tractatus鈥�, Theoria, 2005: 3, 215-40.

  • Loomis, Eric J. "Speaking of Logical Form: The Tractatus and Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language", Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 2005: 8, 176- 205.

  • Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淣ecessity, the A Priori and the Standard Meter鈥�, Synthese, vol. 121, 3, 1999.

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Courses

  • Chinese Philosophy (cross-listed with International Studies)
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Introduction to Logic
  • Introduction to Ethics (online and in-class)
  • Symbolic Logic
  • Mathematical Logic (cross-listed with Mathematics and Statistics)
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy and Cognitive Science (cross-listed with Psychology)
  • Philosophies of India (cross-listed with International Studies)
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Post-Kantian Anglo-Analytic Philosophy
  • Philosophies of Liberation (Honors)
  • Issues in Environmental Ethics (Freshman Seminar)
  • Social Ethics (blended course)