The World Congress on Logic and Religion - WoCoLoR

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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. 

 

There have been three editions of the WoCoLoR: in Joao Pessoa, Brazil (2015), in Warsaw, Poland (2017), and in Varanasi, India (2022). They provoked interesting discussions, inspired the cooperation of scholars representing various fields, and yielded many interesting results, which were later published in several volumes. 

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The 4th WoCoLoR 2023

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The 4th World Congress on Logic and Religion--4th WoCoLoR 2023--will be held at Sinaia, Romania, on September 18-22, 2023. The talks shall be on general topics related to Logic and Religion, including but not restricted to: 

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• Argumentation in religious discourse

• Semiotics in religion and theology

• Proofs for and against God’s existence

• Science and religion

• The role of logic in theology and religious discourse

• Argumentation in world religious traditions (including legal traditions)

• Non-classical logics in theological reasoning

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More details such as the Call for Papers, the list of workshops, and the list of keynote speakers will be published soon. 

 

Publications

 

Accepted abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts. 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.