Carla Cordua


Carla Cordua is a Chilean philosopher.

Life

Cordua was born in Los Ángeles, Chile on Christmas Day, 1925. She entered the University of Chile in 1948 and studied under Bogumil Jasinowski and Oscar Marín.
In 2006 she received the Jorge Millas Award for academic merit from the Austral University of Chile.
She is married to Roberto Torretti who is also a philosopher. During the period of military dictatorship the two left Chile. In 2011 they were jointly awarded Chile's National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences.