Keynote Speaker: Franziska Kohlt, University of Leeds, UK and University of Southern California, USA, "Lewis Carroll's Logic and Religion"
On the one hand symbolism is important in most religions, on the other hand modern logic is often characterized as symbolic. This workshop, part of the 4th World Congress on Logic and Religion, explores the relation bewteen these two symbolic approaches. Suggested topics include - but are not limited to - the following:
Boole's symbolic mathematical notation in logic and abstract religious notions
Zoroastrianism's dualism, Pythagoras's table of opposites, Trinity Christian triangle, Islamic geometrical objects and the theory of oppositions
Yin/Yang and the notion of complementary contradiction
the symbolism of the cross, crucifixion, negation and abnegation
Venn symbolic logic, Venn diagrams and their application to understanding of religious phenomena
the universal quantifier and catholicism as a religion for all
is the existential quantifier really symbolizing existence?
Cabala symbolism and logic in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, deacon in the Church of England and symbolic logician
logical "interpretation" of Gödel's proof of the existence of God in symbolic logic
Submit a one page abstract by May 31st to: jyb.logos@gmail.com