
Logic And Religion Association
LARA
The Logic and Religion Association (LARA) aims to advance research in the field of Logic and Religion. This is being achieved through the World Congress of Logic and Religion (WoColoR), the Logic and Religion Webinar series, and other scientific events, as well as through the publication of manuscripts. It was created in 2021 as a natural development of the Logic and Religion project.

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre
Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil)
President
Anand Vaidya
San José State University (USA)
Jean-Yves Beziau
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Vice-President
Agnieszka Rostalska
Ghent University (Belgium)
Marcin Trepczyński
University of Warsaw (Poland)
Treasurer
Francisco de Assis Mariano
University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
Secretary
Richard Swinburne
University of Oxford (UK)
Analytic Philosophy of Religion and Christianity
Snezana Lawrence
Middlesex University (UK)
Mathematics and Religion
Eleonore Stump
Saint Louis University (USA)
Medieval Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy of Religion
Stanislaw Krajewski
University of Warsaw (Poland)
Foundations of Mathematics and Interreligious Dialogue
Dov Gabbay
King's College (UK)
Talmudic Logic
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
University of Turin (Italy)
Logic and Philosophical Atheism
Purushottama Bilimoria
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Hinduism and Indian Philosophy
Bo Mou
San Jose State University (USA)
Chinese Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy
Jerome Gellman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Judaism and Philosophy of Religion
Liz Jackson
Ryerson University (Canada)
Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
Indian Philosophy and Phenomenology
Jessica Frazier
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (UK)
Musa Akrami
Islamic Azad University (Iran)
Logic and Islam
Jens Lemanski
University of Hagen (Germany)
Schopenhauer and Logic Diagrams
Fabio Bertato
University of Campinas (Brazil)
Formal Philosophy of Religion
Gianfranco Basti
Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican)
Logic, Algebra and Christianity
Paul Weingartner
University of Salzburg (Austria)
Logical Philosophy of Religion and Mathematics
Ali Sadegh Daghighi
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences (Iran)
Oriental Logic and Mathematics
The origins of the Logic and Religion project date back to 2014, when Ricardo Silvestre and Jean-Yves Beziau conceived the 1st World Congress of Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR), which took place in João Pessoa, Brazil, the following year. Approximately 150 logicians and theologians from around the world attended the event; it had distinguished scholars such as Richard Swinburne (Oxford) and Jean-Pierre Desclés (Paris) as plenary speakers. The 2nd WoCoLoR was then held in 2017 in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by Marcin Trepczyński, Stanisław Krajewski and Piotr Balcerowicz. It was even bigger than the first congress. Saul Kripke (New York), Dov Gabbay (London) and Laurent Lafforgue (Paris) were among the plenary speakers. Among the publications resulting from the congresses are several special issues of Logica Universalis (Springer), Sophia (Springer) and the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications), as well as an anthology published by Springer. In 2018, it was announced that the 3rd WoCoLoR would take place in one of the most famous holy cities in the world: Varanasi, India. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 crisis, the congress had to be postponed twice (It took place on November 4-8, 2022, during the Kartik Purnima festival, at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. The 4th WoCoLoR will take place on September 18-23, 2023, at Sinaia, Romania.) In 2021, as a natural consequence of the project, the Logic and Religion Association (LARA) was created.
Logic and Religion Association (Stowarzyszenie Logic and Religion Association)
Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, room 302
00-927 Warsaw, Poland
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