1-5 Apr 2015
Joao Pessoa, Brazil
Call for Papers
Theme: Logic and Religion
Type: 1st World Congress on Logic and Religion
Institution: Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG)
Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Location: Joo Pessoa, PB (Brazil)
Date: 1.?5.4.2015
Deadline: 31.10.2014
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Logic can be understood in different ways. The word "logic" has four
basic meanings: reasoning, science, language and relation. Religion
is also "relational", it can be viewed as the connection between
human beings with life, reality, divinity. Logic, symbol of
rationality, may appear as opposed to religion belief-oriented.
But logic and religion are intertwinned in many ways. Theo-logy is
the science of god. It includes some proofs of the existence of god
ranging from Anselm to Gdel. Moreover in the Bible the logos is
assimilated to God and this has been repercuted in occidental
philosophy in different ways by philosophers such as Leibniz or
Hegel. A religion like Buddhism is also strongly connected to
reasoning as well as Islam and many others.
This will be the first world congress on logic and religion.
Relations between logic in all its dimensions ? philosophical,
mathematical, computational, linguistical ? and the the different
religions will be examined.
Topics
Logic And The Main Religions
- buddhism
- christianism
- talmudism
- islamism
- taoism
- zoroastranism
- hinduism
- janaism
Arguments for or against God's Existence
- ontological arguments (Anselm, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, etc)
- cosmological arguments
- teological and design arguments
- arguments from religious experiences
- arguments from evil
- foreknowledge and free-will
- divine hiddeness
- Gdel's proof and other formal proofs
Logic and Belief
- doxastic logic
- belief and truth
- belief and knowledge
- possible worlds
- agnosticism
- skepticism
- atheism
- epistemic paradoxes
Logic and the Concept of God
- perfection, eternity, infinity
- holiness
- omnipotence, omniscience
- goodness
- pantheism
- compossibility of divine attributes
Scientific Conceptualization and Religion
- evolution and creation
- life and death
- chance, causality, determinism
Submissions
To submit a contribution send a one page abstract to:
logicandreligion@gmail.com, before November 1st 2014 (notification
November 15 2014). All talks dealing with the relation between logic
and religion are welcome, in particular those falling into the
categories above. Peer-reviewed papers will be published after the
congress in a book and/or a special issue of a journal with
publishers of international recognition.
The event is organized by the Federal University of Campina Grande
(UFCG), the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) and Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), as part of a project of
applications of logic to philosophy of religion of the Brazilan
Research Council CNPq. It will happen in Joo Pessoa, North-East of
Brazil.
Conference website:
http://www.uni-log.org/logic-and-religion.html