Logic Prize
Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias
The Peruvian Society for Epistemology and Logic in collaboration with the Logica Universalis Association (LUA), is pleased to introduce the Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias Logic Prize, awarded every three years to the best unpublished article written in any area of logic by anyone affiliated to a Peruvian academic institution.
This prize is part of LUA‘s project A Prize of Logic in Every Country and is dedicated to the memory of José Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias (1918-2019), who was the most important Peruvian logician.
Paco, as he was known, was mainly concerned with building a theory of reason suitable for understanding the most important logical and mathematical discoveries of his time: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and heterodox logics.
It is internationally recognised for having coined the name “paraconsistent logic” [1] for designating those logical systems in which the principles of non contradiction and explosion are not generally valid.
He has also been a pioneer in the fields of deontic logic and the logic of law with his article “The logic of ought-to-be and its eliminability” [2], written in the same year that von Wright published his Deontic Logic (1951).
References
[1] Fr. Miró Quesada Cantuarias. In the name of paraconsistency. South American Journal of Logic, 6(2):163-71, 2020.
[2] Fr. Miró Quesada Cantuarias. La lógica del deber ser y su eliminabilidad. Derecho, 30(30):153-9, 1972.
[2] Fr. Miró Quesada Cantuarias. La lógica del deber ser y su eliminabilidad. Derecho, 30(30):153-9, 1972.
