FW: 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion

 
From: "Warren S. Goldstein goldstein@PROTECTED [Center for Critical Research on Religion Listserve]" <ccrr_listserve@PROTECTED>
Subject: FW: 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion
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Date: January 1st 2017

From: Piotr Balcerowicz <piotrbalcerowicz1@PROTECTED>
Date: Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 10:55 AM
Subject: 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion

Dear Colleagues,

The Organisers of the 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion, to be held at the University of Warsaw (Poland), 18-22 June, 2017, have the pleasure of inviting you to the Congress: http://logicandreligion.uw.edu.pl/

Please find attached the first general call for papers. In addition to what is mentioned in the announcement (attached), the Congress will have separate sections on (1) Logic in the religions of East Asia, (2) Logic as it relates to Arabic philosophy and the Islamicate world and (2) Logic in the religions of South Asia.

We would be most grateful, should you make this announcement available at your institution and make it known to your colleagues as well.
The registration form can be found at: http://logicandreligion.uw.edu.pl/registration/

With best regards,
On behalf of the Organisers

Piotr Balcerowicz
Professor, Chair of South Asia (the University of Warsaw)
Deputy Chair of the Academic Committee
2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion
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http://balcerowicz.eu/




First Announcement

will be held on 18-22 June, 2017, at the University of Warsaw (Poland)

http://logicandreligion.uw.edu.pl

Dear Colleague,

The Organizers of the 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion,  to be held at the University of Warsaw (Poland) on 18-22 June, 2017, have the pleasure of inviting you to the Congress.

The 2nd Congress, organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw will be a continua­tion of the 1st World Congress that took place in 2015 in João Pessoa (Brasil).

SUBJECT

A wide range of issues concerning the relation between logic and religion, with regional complexities and his­torical layers of religions, are expected to be discussed. Among the topics to be discussed are the following:


o         Impact of religious beliefs on logical structures;

o         Logic at the service of apologetics;

o         Rationalization of religious beliefs;

o         Justification in religious legal traditions;

o         Logics vis-à-vis illogicalities in religion;

o         Non-classical logics and religion;

o         Models of argumentation in religious discourse.


THE DATE AND THE VENUE OF THE CONGRESS

The Congress will be held at the University of Warsaw (Poland) on 18–22 June, 2017.

PARTICIPANTS: We welcome participants in three categories:

(1) regular presentation: speakers who present their papers within a regular session,

(2) poster presentation within a poster session,

(3) presence and discussion only: general audience who participates without presenting a paper / poster.

PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS: As a rule, 30 minutes are allotted for each paper (20 min) and an accompanying discussion (10 min). Short abstracts (maximum 3000 characters) are expected by 15 January, 2017.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE CONGRESS is English.

THE CONGRESS FEE is:


Early registration fee (via bank transfer):
100 Euro – regular fee*
50 Euro – students and PhD students
* In justified cases, please apply for a reduced fee of 50%.

Paid-on-arrival fee (paid in cash):
180 Euro – regular fee*
90 Euro – students and PhD students


REGISTRATION is opened from 1 October, 2016 onwards. The deadline for submission of a short abstract (registration) is 15 January, 2017. Please register online: http://logicandreligion.uw.edu.pl/registration/

ORGANIZERS

Academic Committe: Stanisław Krajewski (University of War­saw) – chair, Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw) – dep­uty chair, Brendan Gillon (McGill Uni­versity, Mont­real), Dominique Lambert (Université de Namur, Bel­gium), Basil Lourié (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg), Andrew Schu­mann (Uni­ver­sity of In­formation Technol­ogy and Man­agement in Rzeszow, Poland), Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University), Tony Street (University of Cam­bridge).

Organizing Committe: Marcin Trepczyń­ski (Univer­sity of Warsaw) – chair, Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro) – co-chair, the 1stWCLR, Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (Fed­eral University of Campina Grande) – co-chair, the 1stWCLR, Agata Łu­komska (Univer­sity of War­saw).

Invited speakers include: Dov Gabbay (London), Michael Heller (Templeton Prize, Kraków), Laurent Lafforgue (Fields medal, Paris), John Searle (Berkeley), Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Toronto), Jan Woleński (Kraków).

The registration on-line at http://logicandreligion.uw.edu.pl/registration/.

Please kindly forward this Announcement to all scholars interested in both logic and religion.
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