Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza SJ (1578 – November 10, 1641), also called Puente Hurtado de Mendoza, was a Basque scholastic philosopher and theologian.
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza entered the Jesuit order in 1595 in Salamanca.
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,[1] characteristic of that generation.
His conceptualist tendencies were further developed by his pupils Rodrigo de Arriaga and Francisco Oviedo.