Open AccessCarlos E. Alchourrón. Breve biografía intelectual
Author(s) -
Gladys Palau
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 1870-4905
DOI - 10.22201/iifs.18704905e.1996.1031
Subject(s) - defeasible estate , normative , biography , computer science , field (mathematics) , defeasible reasoning , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , art history , art , pure mathematics
This paper is a short intellectual biography of Professor Carlos E. Alchourrón. I analyze his main contributions in three fields: 1) the logic of normative systems, 2) the logic of theory change, and 3) the logic of defeasible conditionals. I review the historical development of his thought on these three subjects. Furthermore, I show how the problems that arise in the field of normative logic stimulated him to find solutions in the AGM theory and in defeasible logic. Lastly, I show how in his last papers these three fields converge in a general englobing approach.