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Raúl Orayen Unilog Logic Prize for Mexico 1) The Mexican Academy of Logic (AML) awards the Raúl Orayen Unilog Logic Prize, every three years to promote research in logic in México. The recipient of this prize will receive support, as detailed below, to present their work in international venues. 2) Applicants must submit an original, unpublished manuscript in English, between 10 and 30 pages in length, on any topic that falls within the scope of logic, as recognized by the international community of logicians. 3) The Jury will consist of national researchers from various areas of logical studies 4) The prize, besides being an honour, will support the winner's participation (housing + registration fee) in the World Congress of Universal Logic and the publication of the paper in the Springer journal Logica Universalis. 4) The prize is open to all members of the Mexican Academy of Logic (AML) and also to every academic people affiliated with a university, institute, or school, regardless of their position, nationality, gender, or age. Eligible participants include professors, researchers, current postgraduate students, doctors and also independent researchers, livving and working in the country of Mexico.
Raúl Orayen Unilog Logic Prize 2025 i) Participation in UNILOG'2025 in Cusco, Peru: housing + registration fees will be provided to the winner and the paper will be published in the Springer journal Logica Universalis. The awarded person will present his/her work at the 3rd World Logic Prizes Contest competing with the corresponding award winners from other countries. ii) The manuscript must be submitted in .tex format, but also in pdf format to the following email address: amllogicprizemex@gmail.com
iii) Jury 2025
Any issue not covered by this call will be resolved by the Mexican Academy of Logic.
This prize is part of the project A PRIZE OF LOGIC IN EVERY COUNTRY.
Raúl Orayen was one of the most prominent philosophers of logic in Mexico of the late 20th century, and his philosophical thought is still considered one of the most important in Mexico. His philosophical work included diverse areas such as logic, philosophy of logic, ontology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. A few examples are the following: In the field of logic, he develop deep reflections on modal logic and the connection among its constituents formal systems, what he called "generalized modal metalogic." In the context of philosophy of science, he made a very early, formal, and forceful critique of Hempel's nomological-deductive model. He also rigorously addressed some of the main topics in the philosophy of logic, and proposed some refutations against several of Quine's kernel theses. In other respects, one of Orayen's most interesting contributions in the 1990s is his thesis that the relationship between Cantorian set theory and classical first-order logic is paradoxical—the famous Orayen Paradox, which has generated books devoted to its discussion. He was a member of the Institute of Philosophical Research at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and also of other several institutions in Argentina, his home country. He was a Visiting Scholar (1989) and Visiting Research Fellow (1994) at Birkbeck College, University of London. Another relevant aspect of Orayen's work was his contribution, through his logic courses, in the educational trainning in logical research. Orayen is largely responsible for the training of several generations of Mexican scholars who have been key in consolidating not only the dissemination of logic and its philosophy, but also a broad research network in Mexico, which includes several Mexican university institutions and a wide variety of lines of research in both classical and non-classical logic. Sadly, a terminal illness cut short Orayen's career, and he died in 2003.
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