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Region
  
Western Philosophy

Era
  
20th-century philosophy

Role
  
Philosopher

Name
  
Roberto Torretti

School
  
Tychism


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Born
  
15 February 1930 (age 94) (
1930-02-15
)
Santiago de Chile, Chile

Main interests
  
Physics, Mathematics, History

Education
  
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (1954)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Influenced by
  
Immanuel Kant, Aristotle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Sanders Peirce

Books
  
The Philosophy of Physics, Relativity and geometry, Philosophy of geometry, Creative understanding, Sophocles' Philoctetes

Similar People
  
Immanuel Kant, Jesus Mosterin, Aristotle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Sanders Peirce

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Roberto Torretti (born February 15, 1930 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean philosopher, author and academic who is internationally renowned for his contributions to the history of philosophy, physics and mathematics.

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Biography

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Torretti received a doctorate from the University of Freiburg, Germany, as a pupil of Wilhelm Szilasi in 1954. Shortly after he began lecturing in philosophy and psychology at the Institute of Education of the University of Chile in Valparaíso. He also worked for the United Nations before commencing an academic career that lasted for more than forty years, during which he taught philosophy in the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Chile. Torretti is currently professor emeritus of the University of Puerto Rico, and a member of the Institut International de Philosophie. In April 2005 Torretti was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain. Torretti resides in Santiago, Chile and is married to the academic and philosopher Carla Cordua. In September 2011 Cordua and Torretti were jointly awarded the National Prize for the Humanities by the Republic of Chile.

Philosophy

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Torretti has been greatly influenced by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant and has dedicated many of his works to Kant’s thought. His work Manuel Kant: estudio sobre los fundamentos de la filosofia critica is considered one of the most important literary works on the thoughts of the 18th century German philosopher. Publications such as Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré (1978), Relativity and geometry (1983) and El paraíso de Cantor (1998) have made Torretti a leading authority on the philosophy of science. Much of Torretti’s work has dealt with physics and mathematics, with a major focus on relativity theory and 19th century geometry. He has devoted the book El Paraíso de Cantor to the set-theoretical tradition in logic and philosophy of mathematics. Together with Jesús Mosterín, he has written an original and comprehensive dictionary of logic and philosophy of science.

Academic awards

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  • National Prize for the Humanities, República de Chile, 2011
  • Doctor honoris causa, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2005
  • Fellow, Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science, 1983–1984
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, 1980–1981
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, 1975–1976
  • Alexander-von-Humboldt Dozentenstipendiat, Kant-Archiv, Bonn, 1964–1965
  • References

    Roberto Torretti Wikipedia