WORKSHOP
Religious Symbolism and Symbolic Logic
Organizers: Jean-Yves Beziau and Caroline Pires Ting, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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
- 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 June 15 to: jyb.logos@gmail.com
After the event full papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Logica Universalis or in a book of the series Studies in Universal Logic
Religious Symbolism and Symbolic Logic
https://sites.google.com/view/symbol-relog/
SCHEDULE
Monday (September 4)
Room A
Chairing: Jean-Yves Beziau, Caroline Pires Ting
| 09:00-09:15 – | Introduction |
| 09:15-10:00 – | KEYNOTE: Lewis Carroll's Logic and Religion |
| 10:00-10:30 – | The Symbolism of complementary and contradictory opposition: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Western Ontological Constructs |
| 10:30-11:00 – | Concatenation of Logics and Aesthetics in the Flow of the Experience of the Sacred in the Thought of Abhinavagupta, 950-1016 CE, on the example of Abhinavabharati. A study into comparative aesthetics |
| 11:00-11:15 – | |
| 11:15-11:45 – | The Buddhist Seng Zhao’s Roots in Neo-Daoism: Ex Contradictione Nihil |
| 11:45-12:15 – | Discussion |
