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4th WORLD CONGRESS ON LOGIC AND RELIGION

Sinaia, Romania

September 3-8, 2023

WORKSHOP

Religious Symbolism and Symbolic Logic

Organizers:  Jean-Yves Beziau and  Caroline Pires Ting,   Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

Keynote Speaker:  Franziska KohltUniversity 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 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: Franziska Kohlt: Lewis Carroll's Logic and Religion
10:00-10:30 – Caroline Pires Ting: The Symbolism of complementary and contradictory opposition: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Western Ontological Constructs
10:30-11:00 – Wiesna Mond: 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 – Coffee break
11:15-11:45 – Takaharu Oda: The Buddhist Seng Zhao’s Roots in Neo-Daoism: Ex Contradictione Nihil
11:45-12:15 – Discussion

Keynote Speakers


Richard Swinburne

Richard Swinburne

University of Oxford

The Consistency of the Concept of God

Eleonore Stump

Eleonore Stump

Saint Louis University

Paradox and Human Flourishing: the Special Case in Ecclesiastes

Mircea Dumitru

Mircea Dumitru

University of Bucharest

Gödel’s
Ontological
Argument

Franziska Kohlt

Franziska Kohlt

University of Leeds,
University of Southern California

Lewis Carroll's
Logic and Religion

Douglas L. Berger

Douglas L. Berger

Leiden University

Logic, Experience and Awakening: Continuities in Buddhist Thought and Pesctice

Kordula Swietorzecka

Kordula Świętorzecka

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

How to Merge the Anselmian and Cartesian Ontological Arguments. New Formalized Synthesis

Matthias Kossler

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

Gerhard Seel

University of Bern

About Kant's Unique Possible
Foundation of a Demonstration
of the Existence of God

Antonios Kalogerakis

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).

Organizing Committee


Jean-Yves Beziau

Jean-Yves Beziau

chair

Razvan Diaconescu

Razvan Diaconescu

co-chair

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

member

Francisco de Assis Mariano

Francisco de Assis Mariano

member

Agnieszka Rostalska

Agnieszka Rostalska

member

Marcin Trepczyński

Marcin Trepczyński

member

Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszyńska

Katarzyna
Gan-Krzywoszyńska

member

Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode

Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode

member

Programme

The programme of the congress is available here: 4WOCOLOR Programme

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.

Getting a visa

Learn about visas here: https://www.mae.ro/en/node/2035

Apply for e-visa: https://eviza.mae.ro

Getting to Sinaia

To get to Sinaia from Henri Coanda International Airport (Bucarest - OTP) you can use the following instruction: (click here)

To get to Sinaia from Brasov-Ghimbav International Airport (Brasov, GHV) you can use the following instruction: (click here)

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.

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Fees

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Contact Us

Logic and Religion Association

3 Krakowskie Przedmiescie Str, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland

lara@logicandreligion.com

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.