José Miguel Sagüillo

José Miguel Sagüillo is a Spanish philosopher. He is Catedrático and Professor of Logic at the University of Santiago de Compostela. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the University of Buffalo with John Corcoran, John Kearns, Nicolas Goodman, John Myhill, Richard Vesley, and others. His MA is from Buffalo. His PhD is from the University of Santiago de Compostela but his PhD supervisor was Prof. Rafael Beneyto, Catedrático and Professor of Logic at the University of Valencia.

He is co-author with the Oxford philosopher of science Rom Harré of the 2001 book El movimiento antimetafísico del siglo XX, (Madrid: Ediciones Akal). He is sole author of the 2008 monograph El Pensamiento Lógico-Matemático,(Madrid: Ediciones Akal).

As Professor, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Logic Group at the University of Buffalo and in the Logic and Methodology Group at the University of California at Berkeley.

He is the winner of the first Ivor Grattan-Guinness Best Paper Award for History and Philosophy of Logic. The award winning paper is ‘Methodological Practice and Complementary Concepts of Logical Consequence: Tarski’s Model-Theoretic Consequence and Corcoran’s Information-Theoretic Consequence’, published in the journal History and Philosophy of Logic in the first issue of 2009, pp. 21–48. Candidates are authors of contributions published in History and Philosophy of Logic in the past year.

He is co-author with John Corcoran, his teacher and mentor, of what is currently the fourth "Most read" paper in HPL.[1]

References

1. Corcoran, John; Sagüillo, José Miguel (2011). "The Absence of Multiple Universes of Discourse in the 1936 Tarski Consequence-Definition Paper". History and Philosophy of Logic. 32 (4): 359–374. doi:10.1080/01445340.2011.577145.