4th WORLD CONGRESS ON LOGIC AND RELIGION

WORKSHOP

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 May 31, 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 20, 2023. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress. 

Keynote Speaker: Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford, UK)

Chairs: Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil), Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK) and Abbas Ahsan (University of Birmingham, 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).