Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara

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Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara Scabia (born 1938) [1] is an Italian logician and philosopher of science, known for her work on quantum logic and quasi-set theory. She is a professor emerita at the University of Florence. [2]

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Education and career

Dalla Chiara was born in Pola, then part of the Italian province of Pola and now in Croatia. [1] [3] After earning a degree in philosophy at the University of Padua in 1961, she continued her studies at the University of Milan with Ettore Casari  [ it ] and Ludovico Geymonat. [3]

She joined the Faculty of Literature at the University of Florence in 1970, and retired to become a professor emerita in 2010. She has also served as president of the International Quantum Structures Association, of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and of the Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. [3]

Recognition

Dalla Chiara won the Giulio Preti Prize for dialogue between science and democracy for 2012–2013. [3]

Books

Dalla Chiara's books include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Birth year and place from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-09-07
  2. Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, University of Florence, retrieved 2020-09-07
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara", Premio Giulio Preti, Consiglio Regione Toscana, retrieved 2020-09-07
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  7. Reviews of Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction:
  8. Review of Bridging the Gap:
  9. Review of Reasoning in Quantum Theory:
  10. Review of Quantum Computation and Logic: