Lorenzo Peña

Lorenzo Peña
Peña in 2007
Native name	Lorenzo Peña y Gonzalo
Born	August 29, 1944 Alicante, Spain
Residence	Western philosophy
Other names	Llorenç Penya
Website	lorenzopena.es
Academic background
Alma mater	Université de Liège (Belgium)
Thesis title	Contradiction et vérité : Étude sur les fondements et la portée épistémologique d'une logique contradictorielle
Thesis year	1979
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy
Doctoral advisor	Paul Gochet
Influences	Plato, Aquinas, Leibniz, Jeremy Bentham, Hegel, Marx, Frege, Willard Quine, Ferdinand Gonseth, Lotfi Zadeh
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Institutions	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Universidad de León, CSIC
Main interests	Philosophy of law, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
Notable works	El ente y su ser, Hallazgos Filosóficos, Estudios Republicanos
Notable ideas	Cumulativism, Contradictorial gradualism, Ontophantics, republicanism
Notes
Lorenzo Peña is a member of the Spanish Society of Legal and Political Philosophy and is a lawyer enrolled with the Madrid Bar Association of Advocates

Lorenzo Peña (born August 29, 1944) is a Spanish philosopher, lawyer, logician and political thinker. His rationalism is a neo-Leibnizian approach both in metaphysics and law.

Lorenzo Peña was born in Alicante, Spain, on August 29, 1944. Persecuted by Franco's regime, his mother (born in the Madrid Royal Palace in 1911) was not allowed to return to the Spanish capital city until 1952.

In Madrid Peña was taught Greek and Indoeuropean linguistics by the renowned Spanish philologist Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and ethics by J.L. Aranguren.

Upon becoming a political activist in February 1962, he was forced to emigrate in the spring 1965. In early 1969 he married his class-mate María Teresa Alonso in Meudon (France). While staying in Paris he was a disciple of the French historian Pierre Vilar and he witnessed the upheaval of May 1968. He gave up all clandestine activities in 1972. After spending 18 years in exile, he went back to Spain in 1983.

In 1974 Peña was awarded his philosophy degree (licenciatura) from the PUCE (the Ecuadorian Pontifical University in Quito), with [1] a thesis on Anselm of Canterbury's Ontological argument for the existence of God, his adviser being Julio C. Terán, S.J., who taught him hermeneutics. He then spent four years in Liège, Belgium, (1975–1979) where, under Paul Gochet's supervision, he wrote [2] his dissertation on a system of contradictorial (paraconsistent) logic. At that time he was also granted a complementary degree in American Studies by the University of Liège.