2025 Maite Ezcurdia Essay Prize

The Institute for Philosophical Research of UNAM through its journal Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía invites 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 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 4, 2025: Award ceremony

December 15, 2025: Publication of accepted articles

For any queries, please contact editor-in-chief Santiago Echeverri (santiago.echeverri@filosoficas.unam.mx).

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.