Third World Logic Prizes Contest, Cusco, Peru - 8th UNILOG - December 2025

[jean-yves beziau]

The Third World Logic Prizes Contest is a competition that will take place between winners of logic prizes from many countries during the 

8th UNILOG (World Congress and School on Universal Logic), Cusco, Peru, December 4-14, 2025.

https://sites.google.com/view/unilog2025/

Each winner of a given country will have his/her paper published in the journal Logica Universalis and 30 mn (including discussion) to present the work for which he/she has won the prize in his/her  country. A Jury of about 10 important logicians from all over the world will at the end of the presentations decide who is the winner of the Universal Logic Prize.

This is part of the project "A prize of logic in every country", promoted by LUA, the Logica Universalis Association. 21 countries are currently registered, it is still possible to register new countries for this contest:

https://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-world

The 1st World Logic Prizes Contest took place at UNILOG 2018 in Vichy, France. The papers presented at this contest were published in a special issue of  Logica Universalis: vol.12, issue 3-4, 2018. 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-018-0215-6

The winner was Ivan Varzinczak, participant of the contest as the Winner of the Louis Couturat  Logic Prize  for France, with the paper "A Description Logic of Concept and Role Typicality for Defeasible Reasoning Over Ontologies."

https://link.springer.com/journal/11787/volumes-and-issues/12-3

The 2nd World Logic Prizes Contest took place at UNILOG 2022 in Crete. The papers presented at this contest were published in a special issue of  Logica Universalis: vol.16, issue 1-2, 2022.   

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-022-00304-w

The winner was Ciro Russo, participant of the contest as the Winner of the Newton da Costa Logic Prize for Brazil, with the paper "Coproduct and amalgamation of deductive systems by means of ordered algebras."

https://link.springer.com/journal/11787/volumes-and-issues/16-1

Among new prizes for the 3rd edition of the contest we have:

- Jaakko Hintikka Logic Prize for Finland

https://www.uni-log.org/jaakko-hintikka-prize-of-logic-2025

- Christine Ladd-Franklin Logic Prize for the USA

https://www.uni-log.org/christine-ladd-franklin-prize-of-logic-2025

- Gregorio Klimovsky Logic Prize for Argentina

https://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-argentina-2025

3rd World Logic Prizes Contest 
https://sites.google.com/view/unilog2025/logic-prizes

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Jean-Yves Beziau

President of the Logica Universalis Association - LUA

https://philpeople.org/profiles/jean-yves-beziau