Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara

Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara Scabia 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.

Education and career

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

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

Dalla Chiara's books include:

Modelli Sintattici e Semantici delle Teorie Elementari
La Logica, translated into Spanish as Lógica by José M. Valderas
Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction
Bridging the Gap: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics Lectures on the Foundations of Science
Introduzione alla Filosofia della Scienza ; translated into Spanish as Confines: Introducción a la Filosofía de la Ciencia
Sperimentare la Logica
Reasoning in Quantum Theory: Sharp and Unsharp Quantum Logics
From Quantum Information to Musical Semantics
''Quantum Computation and Logic: How Quantum Computers Have Inspired Logical Investigations''