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Peruvian Logic Prize 2025

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Submission deadline: Thursday 31 July 2025

Planned date for the announcement of results: Early September

  • Society for Epistemology and Logic (SEPLO)
  • Logica Universalis Association (LUA)

Luis F. Bartolo Alegre (LMU München)

  • José Carlos Cifuentes (UFPR, BR)
  • Evandro Luís Gomes (UEM, BR)
  • Rafael Félix Mora Ramirez (UNFV, PE)

TBA

premio.logica@seplo.org

We call on all persons dedicated to logic and affiliated to any Peruvian academic institution to compete in Peruvian Logic Prize 2025 ‘Juan de Espinosa Medrano‘.

The prize is awarded to the best unpublished article (8000 words) written in any area of logic, including, but not limited to:

  • Propositional logic

  • Logical algebra

  • Model theory

  • Applied logic

  • Informal logic

  • Argumentation theory

  • Non-classical logics
  • Logic of science
  • Philosophy of logic
  • Logic didactics
  • History of logic
  • Logical analysis of language

Participants must submit an unpublished paper written in Spanish or English.

The prize, in addition to being an honour, will finance the winner’s participation in the UNILOG 2025 congress (Cusco, Peru) to present the paper, and its possible publication in the journal Logica Universalis, indexed in Scopus.

The winning article will also compete for the Universal Logic Prize against the winning papers of the other regional logic awards promoted by the project A Prize of Logic in Every Country, of the Logica Universalis Association.

The article must comply with the contest rules, which can be accessed via the link below. It must, primarily, be submitted prepared for blind review; that is, any indication of the author’s identity, including name, affiliation, email address, etc., must be removed.

For the present edition of the prize, contestants must send their paper through the form linked below by 31 July 2025.

Rules
Form
Poster

This second edition of the prize pays tribute to Juan de Espinosa Medrano (1629–1688), regarded as the first Peruvian philosopher of Indigenous origin to write a treatise on philosophy and logic in South America: Philosophia Thomistica (Rome, c. 1688), written in Latin. Espinosa Medrano was also a literary critic, playwrighter, and professor, educated at the Seminary of San Antonio Abad, an institution that would later become the National University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco (UNSAAC).

Results of the contest​

The 2025 Juan de Espinosa Medrano Logic Prize has been awarded to Jean Christian Egoavil for his article “On the Shores of Dawn: the Logica in Via Scoti and Its Logical Significance in Peru”. He holds a degree in Logic and Epistemology from the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (UARM, Peru), where he defended the thesis Haecceitas: Ultimate Formal Reality in the Individuation of Substances. He obtained his master’s degree in History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP, Peru), with the thesis From Spain to Peru: The Transmission of Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Case of Jerónimo de Valera’s Logica Via Scoti. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Philosophy and Liberal Arts at the University of Navarra (UNAV, Spain). His research focuses on the logical and epistemological thought of John Duns Scotus, on José Ortega y Gasset’s philosophy and its influence in Peru, as well as on the historiography of philosophical thought developed in the Americas and Peru between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He teaches at the Universidad del Pacífico, the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, and the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya.
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