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.
Jean-Yves Beziau
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Marcin Trepczyński
University of Warsaw (Poland)
Francisco de Assis Mariano
University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
Anand Vaidya (1976 - 2024)
San José State University (USA)
Agnieszka Rostalska
Ghent University (Belgium)
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre
Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil)
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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
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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
Iranian Institute of Philosophy (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 TrepczyÅ„ski, StanisÅ‚aw 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.
There are two kinds of LARA membership one might apply to: supporting membership and ordinary membership.
A supporting member can be any person or institution that declares financial, material or substantive assistance to help achieve LARA's goals. A person or institution becomes a supporting member after submitting a written request to lara@logicandreligion.com clearly stating the nature of the assistance that will be provided to LARA. For scholars, we suggest financial support in the form of an annual fee (see below). The request is evaluated and approved or rejected by LARA Executive Board. Supporting members have no voting rights. However, they may participate in an advisory capacity. The supporting member is obliged to comply with the declared assistance and obey the statutes and resolutions.
An ordinary member can be anyone who sends a written application to lara@logicandreligion.com accompanied by two letters of recommendation from LARA members. The request is evaluated and approved or rejected by LARA Executive Board. Ordinary members have the right to participate in elections, make motions concerning the activities of the Association, and are exempt from WoCoLoR registration fees. Ordinary members must help LARA achieve its goals, participate in general meetings, obey the statutes and resolutions, participate in the activities of the Association to the extent possible, and pay the annual fee (see below)
Annual Fee
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Scholars with monthly income over 2000 Euro: 200 EUR
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Scholars with a monthly income 2000 Euro or lower: 100 EUR
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Students: 50 EUR
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