Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578, Balmaseda – November 10, 1641, Madrid) was a Basque conceptualist philosopher and theologian. Philosophical work. He was a teacher of theology and philosophy in Valladolid and he occupied a chair at the University of Salamanca. Hurtado belonged to the third generation of Jesuit scholars and initiated the shift from more realist positions of Francisco Suárez and Gabriel Vásquez towards conceptualism, characteristic of that generation. His conceptualist tendencies were further developed by his pupils Rodrigo de Arriaga and Francisco Oviedo.