Logic Prize 2021 – Society for Epistemology and Logic (SEPLO)

Key dates

Submission deadline: Sunday, 1 November 2020

Planned date for the announcement of the winner: End of November

Award ceremony: 14 January 2021

Institutions

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

Organiser

Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre (UNMSM)

Jury

Verónica Borja Macías (UTM, Mexico)
Walter Alexandre Carnielli (Unicamp, Brazil)
Aldo Figallo-Orellano (UNS, Argentina / Unicamp, Brazil)
David Villena Saldaña (UNMSM, Peru / LN, Hong Kong)

Winner

Rafael Félix Mora Ramirez (UNFV)

Contact

premio@seplo.org

We call on all persons dedicated to logic and affiliated to any Peruvian academic institution to compete in the first edition of the Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias Logic Prize.

The prize is awarded to the best unpublished article (6000 words) written in any area of logic, including, but not limited to: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Participants must submit an unpublished paper written in Spanish or English.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 2021 congress (Crete, Greece) to present the paper, and its 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 1 November 2020.

The authors of the winning article and others selected will be invited to present their contributions at the first SEPLO event for the World Logic Day.

Note You need a Google account to access the form.
If you don't have one, please contact us at premio@seplo.org

Results of the contest

The Francisco Miró Quesada Logic Prize 2021 has been granted to Rafael Félix Mora Ramirez, Doctor of Philosophy from the Federico Villarreal National University , for his article “Disolviendo pragmáticamente la paradoja de Curry” (A pragmatic dissolution of Curry’s paradox). He is the author of the books El valor de la lógica. Ensayo apologético (The value of logic. Apologetic Essay, 2019), Quechua: Problema y posibilidad (Quechua: Problem and Possibility, 2020) and Para comprender a las falacias (Understanding Fallacies, 2020). He is a member of the Center for the Study of Analytical Philosophy (CESFIA), the Peruvian Society of Philosophy (SPF) and the Mexican Academy of Logic (AML). He is a member of the research groups Círculo de Debate San Marcos, Sentido y Referencia and Conjeturas y Refutaciones.