CFP: 2025 Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize

Submission deadline: March 15, 2025

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2025 Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize

The UNAM Foundation and the Institute for Philosophical Research of UNAM through its journal Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía invite submissions for the “2025 Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize” on the topic:

Contextual Aspects of Language

Articles may be written in English or Spanish, should include an abstract of no more than 110 words, and should not exceed 10,000 words (excluding references).

All manuscripts will be considered as submissions to the journal and will be evaluated by external referees through Crítica’s double-blind review system. The winning manuscript will be selected from among the articles accepted for publication by a jury appointed by the UNAM Foundation and the Editors of Crítica.

The author(s) of the winning essay will receive a cash prize of MXN $50,000 (equivalent to approximately USD $2,500) and will be invited to present their article at the award ceremony that will take place at the National Autonomous University of Mexico during the first week of December 2025.

To submit an article, authors must first register with the journal and upload their article into the system:

https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/user/register

To be considered for the prize, authors should write “2025 Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize” in the comments to the editor.

Important dates

March 15, 2025: Deadline for submission of articles

June 15, 2025: First decision on submissions

October 31, 2025: Final decision on articles accepted for publication

November 15, 2025: Announcement of the winning article

December 15, 2025: Publication of accepted articles

For any queries, please contact editor-in-chief Santiago Echeverri ([email protected]).

About the Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize  

The “Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize” is a biennial prize created in honor of the life and work of Maite Ezcurdia (1966–2018), a Mexican philosopher who played a key role in the development of analytic philosophy in Mexico and Latin America. Her research focused on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and cognitive science. Maite Ezcurdia’s main research interests were the analysis of referential expressions, the semantics and pragmatics interface, the nature of linguistic understanding, consciousness, perception, and de se thoughts. As a researcher at the Institute for Philosophical Research of UNAM, Maite Ezcurdia trained several generations of philosophers who have pursued successful academic careers. She worked tirelessly to improve the academic quality of philosophical work in Mexico and was the editor-in-chief of the journal Crítica (2005–2011). At the international level, Maite Ezcurdia promoted the creation of the Latin American Association of Analytic Philosophy (ALFAn). 

The prize is funded by Maite Ezcurdia’s family and the convening institutions.

For more information about Maite Ezcurdia, see:

https://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/maite-ezcurdia/

A website in English is in preparation.

About Crítica

Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía is a quarterly journal published by the Institute for Philosophical Research at UNAM in Mexico. It publishes original articles, discussions, survey articles, book symposia, special issues, and reviews in any area of philosophy, as long as they fall within the analytic tradition broadly understood. Crítica places great value on conceptual precision, argumentative rigor, and originality.

Crítica publishes articles in English and Spanish. All accepted articles are published open access, as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which allows users to download, read, distribute, and print the contents published by the journal, on the condition that they give credit to the original authors and editors. Crítica does not charge for submission, processing, publication or reading of manuscripts.

Founded in 1967 by Alejandro Rossi, Fernando Salmerón and Luis Villoro, Crítica was the first journal dedicated to analytic philosophy in Latin America. It has published articles by influential authors such as Carlos Alchourrón, G.E.M. Anscombe, David M. Armstrong, Eugenio Bulygin, Héctor-Neri Castañeda, Donald Davidson, Jon Elster, R.M. Hare, Gilbert Harman, John L. Mackie, Hugo Margáin, John McDowell, Thomas Nagel, David F. Pears, Arthur N. Prior, Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine, Richard Rorty, Gilbert Ryle, Sydney Shoemaker, Thomas M. Simpson, Ernest Sosa, Peter F. Strawson, Bas C. van Fraassen, and Georg H. von Wright.

Interested in submitting your work to Crítica? Please read our guidelines for authors. You will need to register with the journal before submitting your paper. If you have any questions, please contact editor-in-chief Santiago Echeverri ([email protected]).

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