Extended Deadline: June 30, 2022
Submission: EasyChair submission for WoCoLoR
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 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 4-8, 2022. 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 June 30, 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 July 15, 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

Important Notes

1. Online registration will be open by September 15, 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 WoCoLoR2020@gmail.com stating your reasons.

Note: This is not the definitive list, for submission remains open until June 15, 2022. 

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

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

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

• Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

• Mihir Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, India

• Agnieszka Rostalska, Ghent University, Belgium

• 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