Keynote Speaker: Kordula Świętorzecka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw: Gödel's ontological argument in a new context. Research 2020-2023
Organiser: Marcin Trepczyński, University of Warsaw
This workshop is devoted to various aspects of argumentation in religious discourse, from formal analysis of proofs of theological statements, to identification of persuasive strategies in religious debates.
The papers should both refer to religious discourse and include logical analysis.
Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
new insights related to proofs of the existence of God and of other theological statements,
kinds of argumentation in theological works,
argumentative strategies in religious debates, including persuasive strategies,
methodological challenges concerning interpretation of the religious arguments' structure (annotation, diagramming etc.),
new applications and perspectives of analysing arguments in religious discourse.
We we invite all the scholars who would like to present their results, to submit abstracts by June 10, 2023, directly to Marcin Trepczyński: m.trepczynski@uw.edu.pl
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.
