CONSCIOUSNESS, POST-MATERIALISM IN SCIENCE AND THE SOUL

What is consciousness? How is it connected with the brain? Do we need the concept of soul to account for consciousness? What are the limits of a materialistic-physicalist account of reality? To what extent do the sciences need materialism? Can there be a post-materialist scientific account of the world? What contributions can the world religions give to the philosophical problem of consciousness? These are some of the questions that shall be addressed in the workshop "Consciousness, Post-materialism in Science and the Soul".

We invite submissions of contributed papers on topics related to these questions, including but not restricted to:

• The philosophical problem of consciousness

• Substance dualism and dualistic approaches to consciousness

• Arguments for and against materialism 

• Post-materialism in the sciences

• The concept of soul in philosophical and world religious traditions

Abstracts must have a maximum of 600 words and be written in English according to our template; they must be submitted via Easychair (note that prior registration with EasyChair is required) by May 31, 2021. In the submission, one of the keywords must be "Consciousness, Post-materialism in Science and the Soul". At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress.

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.

CHAIRS

• Shivanand Sharma

       University of Birmingham, UK

• Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

       Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Stephen Priest

University of Oxford (UK)

The workshop "Consciousness, Post-materialism and the Soul"  is being sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies 

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND LOGIC

Religion exists only in specific traditions. How similar and how different are the logical concepts present in Jewish and Christian traditions? What are the specific issues in the two traditions that have logical aspects? And how similar or how divergent are they? Does rationality mean the same in Judaism and Christianity? Is it possible to detect logical elements of Christian-Jewish polemics? And of cooperation and dialogue of the two traditions? In addition, because of the location of the conference, it would be good to relate these questions to Hinduism and other Asian traditions. Do they provide new insights? 

These problems and related ones will be addressed during the workshop "Judaism, Christianity and Logic", which will be part of the 3rd WoCoLoR.

We invite submissions of contributed papers on topics including but not restricted to:​

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• Logic in Christian theological discourse

• Logic in Jewish theological discourse

• Logical Problem of Trinity 

• Talmudic logic  

• Logical aspects common to Christian and Jewish discourses 

• Logical aspects opposing Christian and Jewish discourses 

• The concept of rationality in Jewish and Christian traditions 

• Jewish-Christian polemics and logic 

• Logic and Jewish-Christian dialogue

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Abstracts must have a maximum of 600 words and be written in English according to our template; they must be submitted via Easychair (note that prior registration with EasyChair is required) by May 31, 2021. In the submission, one of the keywords must be "Judaism, Christianity and Logic". At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress.

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.

CHAIRS

• Stanislaw Krajewski

       University of Warsaw, Poland​

• Marcin Trepczyński

       University of Warsaw, Poland

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Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman

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

Ephraim Meir

Bar-Ilan University (Israel)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

LOGICAL PLURALISM vs. LOGICAL REVISION

Main question: when does a set of evidence that conflicts with a logical theory force one to revise the logical theory as opposed to endorsing logical pluralism. Logical revisionism is typically endorsed when one wants to say that a given Logical Theory is correct, but needs to be revised to accommodate some evidence or phenomenon that it cannot easily accommodate. That is, the theory is good enough, but only needs revision in some areas. Logical pluralism is typically endorsed when one thinks that two or more logical systems are better at handling different kinds of inferences than simply accepting only one logical theory and deeming the other inferences illegitimate. For example, one can say that the consequence relation is correctly described by both classical and para-consistent logics, rather than saying that classical logic is correct, and one cannot reason from a contradiction effectively at all.

In this workshop, we invite authors to consider the following questions:

• What are the best arguments for generating logical pluralism?

• What are good grounds for choosing logical revision over logical pluralism?

• What is the relation between alethic pluralism and logical pluralism?

• What are the best arguments for maintaining logical monism?

• How can other traditions of logic, such as Arabic logic or Chinese logic, enter the debate on logical pluralism?

The keynote lecture will be given by Anand Vaidya. He will address the question of whether or not logical pluralism can be extended to include the Nyāya five-membered syllogism. Typically, the logical pluralism is about the logical consequence relation and whether or not there are multiple logics of it that are all correct. In this talk, Anand Vaidya will argue that the form-content distinction can also be brought into the discussion about logical pluralism, since (i) at least one way of generating logical pluralism comes from considering formality as opposed to necessity and normativity, and (ii) there is a link between formality and normativity. Professor Vaidya will argue that the Nyāya five-membered syllogism is one correct way to represent reasoning that can sit alongside the Aristotelian syllogism once we think of the difference between reasoning for truth as an individual as opposed to reasoning for knowledge within a group. Just as there can be pluralism about the consequence relation there can be pluralism about the form-content distinction, and just as the former kind of pluralism is useful for capturing some, but not all ways, the logical consequence relation can work, the latter kind of pluralism is useful for capturing some, but not all ways, an argument can be set up to effectively, such that there is a reasonable answer to the question: what makes an argument good?

Abstracts must have a maximum of 600 words and be written in English according to our template; they must be submitted via Easychair (note that prior registration with EasyChair is required) by May 31, 2021. In the submission, one of the keywords must be "Logical Pluralism vs. Logical Revision". At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress.

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.

CHAIRS

• Noah Friedman-Biglin

       ​San Jose State University, USA

• Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

       Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil​

Logical Pluralism and Indian Logic

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Anand Vaidya

San José State University (USA)

LOGIC OF PARADISE

The paradise is a famous notion in many religions. It may have different names and may come with different related notions. As a substantive, it is considered as a location, but there is also the qualitative “paradisiacal”, that applies to many situations and can be related to different states of mind. The aim of this workshop is to study the logical aspects of paradise and  paradisiacality.  

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We invite submissions of contributed papers on topics related to these questions, including but not restricted to:

• Logical relations of paradise with similar, different or opposite locations, such as hell, purgatory, limbo, earth, heaven.

• Aspects of the paradisiac mind (happiness, delightedness) and its logical relations with other psychic dispositions such as hope, fear, anger, confidence, joy.

• Ways to reach the paradise using logic to avoid illusions, misleading gurus, wrong behaviors and to develop good understanding, balancing emotions with the intellect.

• The logical structure of the paradise: kinds of things and beings which are inside paradise (stones, rivers, seas, plants, trees, animals, humans, divine beings) and the relations between them.

Abstracts must have a maximum of 600 words and be written in English according to our template; they must be submitted via Easychair (note that prior registration with EasyChair is required) by May 31, 2021. In the submission, one of the keywords must be "Logic of Paradise". At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress.

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 special issue of Logica Universalis (Birkhäuser / Springer), a journal of international recognition, included in the Science Citation Index (SCIE) with a high impact factor. 

CHAIRS

• Jean-Yves Beziau

       Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

       Brazilian Academy of Science, Brazil

• Caroline Pires Ting

       Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

       Macao International Institute, Macao

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Miray Yazgan

Istanbul University (Turkey)