CALL FOR PAPERS

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Extended Deadline: May 31, 2022
Submission: EasyChair submission for WoCoLoR
Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2022

Important Note: New Postponement of the 3rd WoCoLoR

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Months ago, we postponed our conference for a year, certain that by the end of 2021 the COVID-19 crisis would be under control. Unfortunately, the world is now witnessing new and more severe waves of the crisis. Given the current situation, we are obliged to postpone the 3rd WoCoLoR once again: it will now be held from 4 to 8 November 2022, during the Kartik Purnima festival. Please note that this does not change the submission process done so far: all accepted abstracts remain accepted for presentation at the congress.

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The World Congress on Logic and Religion - WoCoLor

Although logic, a symbol of rationality, may appear to be opposed to religion, both have a long history of cooperation. Logical concepts and tools have always played important roles in the world's religious traditions; philosophical theology has provided many illustrious attempts to prove the existence of God. Nevertheless, it seems that as an academic field, the area of logic and religion has not yet been consolidated. 

The purpose of the World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR) series is to bridge this gap by providing a place where scholars from all fields, as well as theologians of all religions, can come together to hear from one another about the latest developments in the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, rational inquiry and divine revelation. 

Submission

The 3rd World Congress on Logic and Religion - WoCoLoR will take place at the Banaras Hindu University, in Varanasi, India, November 8-12, 2021. We invite submissions of contributed papers on general topics related to Logic and Religion, including but not restricted to:

• Arguments for and against God’s existence

• Logic and the concept of God 

• Science and religion

• Rationality and religious belief

• Argumentation and reason in world religious traditions

• Justification in religious legal traditions

• Non-classical logics and religion

• Religion and history of logic

Abstracts must have a maximum of 600 words and be written in English according to our template; they must be submitted via Easychair by May 31, 2022 (note that prior registration with EasyChair is required). If the abstract is being submitted to a workshop (see below), the title of the workshop should be one of the keywords. Notification of acceptance will be released on June 10, 2022. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress. 

Publications

Accepted abstracts will be published in the congress proceedings, which will be available during the congress. After the meeting authors will be invited to submit a complete version of their works, which will be peer-reviewed and published in a book and/or special issues of journals with publishers of international recognition. Peer-reviewed papers of previous WoCoLoR’s appeared as special issues of Logica Universalis (Springer), Sophia (Springer) and the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications). For more details click here.

Workshops

The following workshops will happen inside the 3rd WoCoLoR:

• Consciousness and the Self

• Formal Natural Theology

• Judaism, Christianity and Logic

• Logic and Religion in Schopenhauer

• Logical Pluralism vs. Logical Revision

• Mathematics and Religion

• Logic of Paradise

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

Joseph Dauben

City University of New York (USA)

Itala D'Ottaviano

University of Campinas (Brazil)

Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman

Emeritus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

Stephen Priest

University of Oxford (UK)

Ebhard Guhe

Fudan University (China)

Piergiorgio Odifreddi

University of Turin (Italy)

Stephen Phillips

University of Texas (USA)

Wolfgang Lenzen

University of Osnabrueck (Germany)

Christopher Janaway

University of Southampton (UK)

Ali Sadegh Daghighi

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (Iran)

Bo Mou

San Jose State University (USA)

Ephraim Meir

Bar-Ilan University (Israel)

Andrew Pinsent

Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford (UK)

Purushottama Bilimoria

Ashoka University (India)

Logical Pluralism or Logical Revisionism

Anand Vaidya

San José State University (USA)

R​EGISTRATION 

Registration Fees 

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• Early Bird (payment until September 8th, 2022)

150 USD      Regular fee

80 USD        Reduced fee (professors and researchers with annual income below 12,000 USD)

40 USD        Graduate student fee ​

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• Late Registration (payment after September 8th, 2022, or on location)

300 USD      Regular fee

160 USD       Reduced fee (professors and researchers with annual income below 12,000 USD) 

80 USD        Graduate student fee

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Important Notes

1. Online registration will be open from June 10, 2022. 

2. Undergraduate students are exempt from the fee.

3. The fee can be paid on the spot either in American dollar, Euro or Indian Rupee.

4. If your annual income is above 1,200 USD but you still think that the reduced fee applies to you, then send an email to stating your reasons.

ACCEPTED PAPERS  

Note: This is not the definitive list, for submission remains open until May 31, 2021. 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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• Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (co-chair), Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

• Arvind Kumar Singh (co-chair), Banaras Hindu University, India

• Jean-Yves Beziau (co-chair), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Arun Kumar (co-chair), Banaras Hindu University, India

• Mihir Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, India

• Marcin Trepczyński, University of Warsaw, Poland

• Jens Lemanski, University of Hagen, Germany

• Fabio Bertato, University of Campinas, Brazil 

• Francisco de Assis Mariano, Boston College, USA

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Musa Akrami, Islamic Azad University, Iran

• Stanisław Krajewski, University of Warsaw, Poland 

• Newton da Costa, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

• Gianfranco Basti, Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican

• Christoph Benzmüller, Free University of Berlin, Germany

• Dov Gabbay, King's College London, UK

• Benedikt Paul Göcke, Oxford University, UK

• Agnaldo Cuoco Portugal, University of Brasília, Brazil

• Basil Lourie, University of the Aerospace Instrumentation, Russia

• Eleonore Stump, Saint Louis University, EUA