Corina Yoris

Corina Yoris Villasana (born March 17, 1944) is a Venezuelan philosopher and professor, who was the Unitary Platform candidate in the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, as the replacement for María Corina Machado, who was politically disqualified. Yoris was unable to register and was replaced by Edmundo González Urrutia.

Biography

Academic career

Yoris was born in Caracas and graduated in Letters and Philosophy from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in 1980 and 1981, respectively, where she also obtained her PhD in history in 1999. She holds a master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in 1993 and another in Logic and Philosophy of Science from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Her final master's thesis, entitled "Analogy and argumentative force", was awarded the "Federico Riu Award for Philosophical Research" in the category of Short Essay.

Yoris held the position of director of the School of Philosophy at UCAB between 1992 and 1998, director of the Philosophy graduate program from 1997 and of the Humanities and Education Area at the UCAB graduate program between 2007 and 2011. She has also been a columnist for El Nacional and a professor at the Universidad Metropolitana.

At the institutional level, she has played several 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 Philosophy Network (Red Iberoamericana de Filosofía). On 19 March 2024, she was appointed as a full member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language.