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Having started his academic studies in Madrid at the Universidad Complutense (1960-65), Lorenzo Peña resumed them in Quito (1974-75). Upong taking an oral comprehensive examination De uniuersa philosophia and sustaining a thesis on Saint Anselm's ontological proof of God's existence, he earned his Licentiateship (or MA) from the PUCE (Pontifical University of Ecuador). He became a part-time instructor at the same University for the two following years, 1974-75, teaching history of philosophy and the philosophy of language.
He then spent four years at Liege University (Belgium) where he took a number of courses in algebra, logic, analytical philosophy and American civilization, being awarded two postgraduate qualifications, viz. an American Studies Diploma (1978) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (1979). His doctoral dissertation, Contradiction et vérité, implied setting up a paraconsistent gradualistic or fuzzy logic.
His second period as an academic teacher in Ecuador encompassed the years 1979 through 1983, which he devoted to further developments of his logical system as well as applications thereof to the field of metaphysics or ontology.
Upon coming back to Spain in 1983 he was appointed nontenured professor at the University of León, pursuing the same research line, with an enhanced interest in the philosophy of linguistics, allowing himself sporadic forays into issues pertaining to the history of philosophy.
In 1987 he became a tenured scientific researcher at the CSIC (the Spanish National Research Council). He spent six months in 1992-93 as a visiting scholar in Canberra (Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University). At about that time the focus of his philosophical interests veered to the logic of norms, slowly sliding towards fundamental problems in jurisprudence. In 1998, being required to choose an official field of academic expertise, he settled on the Philosophy of Law.
In order to consistently embrace his new commitment, he went in for a complete learning run, pursuing the entire programme of juridical studies (1998-2004) at the Faculty of Law of the Spanish Open University, or UNED, which awarded him a Master-of-Law diploma (Licenciatura en Derecho). He went on to reach the higher qualification of Magister Juris (Master of Juridical Science: Diploma de Estudios Avanzados [D.E.A.] in Human Rights), granted to him by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) in 2007. Later on, pursuant upon the same programme, Lorenzo received the Doctorate on Juridical Science (or Legum Doctor degree) from the UAM in June 2015, upon successfully defending his doctoral Thesis IDEA IURIS LOGICA, wherein a new Natural Law theory is put forward.
When he joined the CSIC in 1987 he founded the research group in analytical philosophy, which remained a one-membered set for years. He continued heading it when in April 2005 it officially became the Logical Jurisprudence Research Group (JuriLog), also comprising Txetxu Ausín, who became its leader on 2012-01-01.
For the last few years Lorenzo Peña's research activity has been devoted to the problems of legal rationality, aiming at a new Natural Law, implemented with the methodological and conceptual tools of a non-standard deontic logic grounded on a gradualistic first-order calculus.
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