Email Address:
ejloomis@southalabama.edu
Phone Number:
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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. “A Priority and Necessity” In H. J. Glock and J. Hymann (eds), A Companion to Wittgenstein. Blackwell: 2014 (forthcoming).
Loomis, Eric J. and Juhl, Cory. “Analytic Truth”. In G. Russell and D. Graff Fara (eds) The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Routledge Press. 2012.
Loomis, Eric J. “Criteria”. In K. Jolley (ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. Dublin: Acumen Press. 2010.
Loomis, Eric J. “Criteria and Defeasibility: When Good Evidence is not Good Enough”, in D. Moyal-Sharrock (ed.) Perspicuous Presentations: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology and Sociology. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
Loomis, Eric J. “Empirical Equivalence in the Quine-Carnap Debate”, 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. “Analyticity”, 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. “Logical Form and Propositional Function in the Tractatus”, 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. “Necessity, the A Priori and the Standard Meter”, Synthese, vol. 121, 3, 1999.

Proceedings, Entries, and Published Book Reviews:

Loomis, Eric J. “Empiricism”, “Epistemology”, “Idealism”, “Induction and Deduction”, “Metaphysics”, “Ontology”, “Positivism”, “Realism”, “Truth”. Encyclopedia entries in The Sage Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. L. E. Sullivan (ed). New York: Sage Publications. 2009
Loomis, Eric J. “Designation and Ontological Commitment in Sellars and Prasangika Madhyamaka”, in Cultures: Conflict-Analysis-Dialogue: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. G. Gasser, C. Kanzian, E. Runggaldier, eds. Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2006
Loomis, Eric J. "Eternal Truth by Convention", in Knowledge and Belief: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 2003.
“Ilham Dilman's Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution: The Question of Linguistic Idealism”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July, 2002. “Review of Classical Indian Metaphysics”, Indian Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 26, July 2000.

Under Review:

“Justification in Carnap’s Constructed Languages” (under review at Journal for the History and Philosophy of Logic).
“A Circularity Problem for Modal Realist Analyses of Counterfactuals” (under review at Review of Metaphysics).

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)