Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara Scabia (born 1938) is an Italian

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

and

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, known for her work on

quantum logic In the mathematical study of logic and the physical analysis of quantum foundations, quantum logic is a set of rules for manipulation of propositions inspired by the structure of quantum theory. The field takes as its starting point an observat ...

and

quasi-set theory Quasi-set theory is a formal mathematical theory for dealing with collections of objects, some of which may be indistinguishable from one another. Quasi-set theory is mainly motivated by the assumption that certain objects treated in quantum physi ...

. She is a

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at the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

Education and career

Dalla Chiara was born in

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, then part of the

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and now in Croatia. After earning a degree in philosophy at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

in 1961, she continued her studies at the

University of Milan The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe ...

with and

Ludovico Geymonat Ludovico Geymonat (May 11, 1908 – November 29, 1991) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science. As a philosopher, he mainly dealt with philosophy of science, epistemology and Marxist philosophy, in which he gave an orig ...

. 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.

Recognition

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

Books

Dalla Chiara's books include: *''Modelli Sintattici e Semantici delle Teorie Elementari'' (in Italian, Feltrinelli Editore, 1968) *''La Logica'' (1974), translated into Spanish as ''Lógica'' by José M. Valderas (Labor, 1976) *''Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Science'' (edited, Reidel, 1981) *''Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction'' (edited with

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, Cambridge University Press, 1992) *''Bridging the Gap: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics Lectures on the Foundations of Science'' (with G. Corsi and G. C. Ghirardi, Kluwer, 1993) *''Introduzione alla Filosofia della Scienza'' (with G. Toraldo di Francia, Laterza, 1999); translated into Spanish as ''Confines: Introducción a la Filosofía de la Ciencia'' (Critica Editorial, 2001) *''Sperimentare la Logica'' (with R. Giuntini and F. Paoli, Luguori, 2004) *''Reasoning in Quantum Theory: Sharp and Unsharp Quantum Logics'' (with R. Giuntini and R. Greechie, Kluwer, 2004) *''From Quantum Information to Musical Semantics'' (with R. Giuntini, E. Negri, and A. R. Luciani, College Publications, 2012) *''Quantum Computation and Logic: How Quantum Computers Have Inspired Logical Investigations'' (with R. Giuntini, R. Leporini, and G. Sergioli, Springer, 2018)

References

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