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Nomological logic, contradictorial logic, legal ontology, nomology
Spain

Biography

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.

Activities

Employment (5)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2014-08-30 to present | Emeritus Professor (Profesor Honorario) (Philosophy)
Employment
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Lorenzo Peña

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas: Madrid, Madrid, ES

1997-02-11 to 2014-08-29 | Tenured Senior resercher, then Science Professor (Philosophy)
Employment
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Lorenzo Peña

Universidad de León: León, Castilla-León, ES

1983-10-01 to 1997-02-10 | Non tenured Associate Professor (Profesor Titular Contratado) (Philosophy)
Employment
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Lorenzo Peña

Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador: Quito, Pichincha, EC

1979-10-01 to 1983-09-30 | Profesor Principal (Full Professor) (Philosphy)
Employment
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Lorenzo Peña

Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador: Quito, Pichincha, EC

1973-07-05 to 1974-08-31 | Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
Employment
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Lorenzo Peña

Education and qualifications (5)

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2005-10-01 to 2015-06-12 | Legum Doctor (Doctor of Juridical Science) (Public Law)
Education
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Lorenzo Peña

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia: Madrid, Madrid, ES

1997-10-01 to 2004-09-30 | Licenciado en Derecho (Master of Law) (Law)
Education
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Lorenzo Peña

University of Liege (Belgium): Liege, Liege, BE

1975-10-01 to 1979-07-06 | Ph.D. in Philosophy (Philosophy)
Education
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Lorenzo Peña

University of Liege: Liege, BE

1977-10-01 to 1978-06-06 | Certificat complémentaire d'études américanines (American Studies)
Education
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Lorenzo Peña

Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador: Quito, Pichincha, EC

1973-10-01 to 1974-07-01 | Licenciado en Filosofía (Master of Philosophy) (Philosophy)
Education
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Lorenzo Peña

Works (9)

Estudios Republicanos

2009-06-01 | Book
ISBN:

978-84-96780-53-8

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

Introducción a las lógicas no clásicas

1993 | Book
ISBN:

968-36-3451-6

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

Hallazgos filosóficos

1992 | Book
ISBN:

84-7299-289-6

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

Rudimentos de lógica matemática

1991 | Book
ISBN:

84-000-7156-5

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

Fundamentos de ontología dialéctica

1987 | Book
ISBN:

84-323-0606-1

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

El ente y su ser

1985 | Book
ISBN:

84-600-3973-0

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

La coincidencia de los opuestos en Dios

1981 | Book
ISBN:

9978444734

Source: Self-asserted source
Lorenzo Peña

Contradiction et vérité

1979-07-06 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Lorenzo Peña

Le sens gnoséologique de la preuve anselmienne

1974 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Lorenzo Peña