Concepts of God: Consistency, Inconsistency and Paraconsistency Issues
We invite submissions of contributed papers on general topics related to the theme CONCEPTS OF GOD: CONSISTENCY, INCONSISTENCY AND PARACONSISTENCY ISSUES including, but not restricted to:
Is the concept of God consistent?
Individual and joint (in)consistency of divine properties
The role of consistency in the debate on the rationality of theistic belief
Paraconsistent approaches to the concept of God
Paradoxical accounts of God (and their solutions) in world religious traditions (e.g. the doctrine of Trinity in Cristianity, bhedabheda accounts in Indian religious traditions and God's essence and attributes in Islam)
Abstracts must have a maximum of 3000 characters and be written in English. They must be submitted by June 17, 2023, through the workshop site (http://4wocolor.pl/#submission) or the e-mail ricardoss@ufcg.edu.br. Notification of acceptance will be released on June 25, 2023. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress.
Keynote Speaker: Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford, UK)
Publications: Accepted abstracts will be published in the congress proceedings, which will be available during the congress. After the conference authors will be invited to submit complete papers, which will be peer-reviewed and published in a special issue of Logica Universalis (https://www.springer.com/journal/11787).
Organizational Committee: Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil (chair); Abbas Ahsan, University of Birmingham, UK; Daniel Molto, University of Sussex, UK; Alan Herbert, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK.
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.
