Corina
Yoris Villasana (Caracas, March 17, 1944) is a Venezuelan philosopher,
professor, academic and politician. Yoris is the candidate of the Unitary
Platform in the Venezuelan presidential elections of July 28, 2024, as a
representative of the Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado, who was
politically disqualified by the Venezuelan government from holding political
office.
Yoris is a
member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language and various academic organizations
in the area of philosophy, logic, and literature.
Academic
career
Corina
Yoris Villasana, was born in Caracas and has a degree in Literature and
Philosophy from the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB) in 1980 and 1981
respectively, where she also obtained her doctorate in History in 1999. She has
a master's degree in Latin American Literature from the Simón Bolívar
University (USB) in 1993 and another in Logic and Philosophy of Science from
the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her final master's thesis, titled “Analogy
and argumentative force,” was awarded the “Federico Riu Philosophical Research
Award” in the Short Essay category.
Yoris held
the position of director of the School of Philosophy of the UCAB between 1992
and 1998, director of the Philosophy postgraduate degree from 1997 and of the
Humanities and Education Area in the postgraduate degree of the UCAB between
2007 and 2011. In addition, she has been columnist for El Nacional and Level
VII professor assigned to the Department of Political Studies of the
Metropolitan University.
At the
institutional level, she has played various roles in both national and
international institutions. She was president of the Venezuelan Society of
Philosophy and the Venezuelan Society of Logic, member of the Mexican Academy
of Logic, member of the Inter-American Society of Philosophy, member of the
International Étienne Gilson Society and vice president for South America of
the Ibero-American Network of Philosophy. On March 19, 2024, she was appointed
as a full member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language, specifically the
"O" chair, which was occupied, among others, by Rómulo Gallegos, the
first Venezuelan president elected by universal vote.
She has
been recognized for her academic career by the Estagira Institute of Higher
Studies, located in Michoacán, Mexico as a distinguished professor. Yoris is
the author of more than 60 articles published in indexed journals, as well as
the author of six books.
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