We have published some pictures from the event: see the 4WOCOLOR Gallery. Send us more pictures and we will add them.
We would like to inform you that the programme of the congress is already available: see the 4WOCOLOR Programme
We also invite you to download the 4WOCOLOR Handbook with abstracts which has been submitted before July 3.
About the Congress
The purpose of the World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR) series is to provide 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). Previous keynote speakers include Saul Kripke (Schock Prize), Laurent Lafforgue (Fields Medal), Michal Heller (Templeton Prize), Dov Gabbay, Jan Wolenski and Piergiorgio Odifreddi.
The 4th World Congress on Logic and Religion--4th WoCoLoR 2023--will be held at Sinaia, Romania, on September 3-8, 2023. We invite scholars (philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, theologians, etc.) to submit a one-page abstract. The topics of the papers should deal with the relationships between logic and religion. To submit an abstract click (see the form below).
Keynote Speakers
Richard Swinburne
University of Oxford
The Consistency of the Concept of God
Eleonore Stump
Saint Louis University
Paradox and Human Flourishing: the Special Case in Ecclesiastes
Mircea Dumitru
University of Bucharest
Gödel’s Ontological Argument
Franziska Kohlt
University of Leeds, University of Southern California
Lewis Carroll's Logic and Religion
Douglas L. Berger
Leiden University
Logic, Experience and Awakening: Continuities in Buddhist Thought and Pesctice
Kordula Świętorzecka
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
How to Merge the Anselmian and Cartesian Ontological Arguments. New Formalized Synthesis
Matthias Kossler
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,
President of the Schopenhauer Society
Is knowledge made of a harder material than faith? Mythos and Logos in Schopenhauer
Gerhard Seel
University of Bern
About Kant's Unique Possible Foundation of a Demonstration of the Existence of God
Antonios Kalogerakis
Orthodox Academy of Crete
Face-to-Face: Exploring a Path of Reconciliation Inside the Nature
Organisers
The institutional organizer of 4th World Congress on Logic and Religion is the Logic and Religion Association.
The supporting co-organizer of this event is Ian Ramsey Centre (Oxford University).
The Congress consists of 8 thematic workshops and a general session. Every day (except Sunday) the meetings start at 9.00 a.m. (local time).
Venue
The conference will be held in the Hotel Palace (hotelpalacesinaia.ro), one of the most famous hotels in Sinaia, Romania.
The sessions will take place in the conference halls.
Practical details
Your presentation
Every contributing speaker will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Please prepare your presentations in a communicative way.
To organize your trip from the airport to Sinaia and back, send your dates of arrival and departure, name of the airport and flight number and where you are coming from to Daniel Molto: D.Molto@sussex.ac.uk
Hotels
WoCoLoR 4 will take place at the Palace Hotel in Sinaia, Romania
https://hotelpalacesinaia.ro/
This is where the lectures will be presented and where keynote speakers and organisers will stay.
We encourage contributing speakers also to stay in this classy hotel. The special price for the event is 90 EUR for a single room, 96 EUR for a double room, in both cases with breakfast included.
To book your room write to Elisa Nicolaescu: office@palacesinaia.ro
putting in the subject line of your email: WoCoLoR4 - Contributing Speaker; in the body of the email specify in particular your dates of departure and arrival.
The event will start Sept 3 and will end Sept 8 in the evening. We therefore recommand arrival on Sept 3 and departure on Sept 9. The Palace Hotel is securing 80 rooms for contributing speakers until July 20. The rooms will be attributed on the first come first served basis.
Weather in Sinaia
The weather in Sinaia can be really cold even at the beginning of September. Please bring some warm clothing.
The congress is co-financed by the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford as a part of the project New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
