Eric J. Loomis
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:
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Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淎 Priority and Necessity鈥 In H. J. Glock and J. Hymann (eds), A Companion to Wittgenstein. Blackwell: 2014 (forthcoming).
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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.
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Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淐riteria鈥. In K. Jolley (ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. Dublin: Acumen Press. 2010.
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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.
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Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淓mpirical Equivalence in the Quine-Carnap Debate鈥, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2006: 87, 499-508.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淟ogical Form and Propositional Function in the Tractatus鈥, Theoria, 2005: 3, 215-40.
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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.
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Loomis, Eric J. 鈥淣ecessity, the A Priori and the Standard Meter鈥, Synthese, vol. 121, 3, 1999.
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)