The 1st World Congress on Logic and Religion was organized jointly by the Federal University of Campina Grande, the Federal University of Paraiba and the University of Brazil in João Pessoa, and held on April 1-5, 2015. It was devoted to a wide range of problems concerning the relations between logic and religion. At the conclusion of the congress, many participants expressed the wish to continue discussions on these topics in the future and also warmly welcomed the idea to organize such an event in Poland, which can be called a country of logic and religion thanks to both the tradition of Lvov-Warsaw School of logic and a considerable level of religiosity.
There are a number of important topics that are proposed be discussed at the 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion in Warsaw, which include such fields as:
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 (including Talmudic Logic);
o Logics vis-a-vis illogicalities in religion;
o Non-classical logics and religion;
o Models of argumentation in religious discourse, etc.
Academic Committee
o Stanisław Krajewski (University of Warsaw) – chair
o Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw) – deputy chair
o Dov M. Gabbay (King’s College London)
o Brendan Gillon (McGill University, Montreal)
o Dominique Lambert (Université de Namur, Belgium),
o Basil Lourie (University of the Aerospace Instrumentation, St Petersburg, Russia)
o Andrew Schumann (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow)
o Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
o Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University)
Organizing Committee
o Marcin Trepczyński (University of Warsaw) – chair
o Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro) – co-chair, the organizer of 1WCLR
o Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande) – co-chair, the organizer of 1WCLR
o Agata Łukomska (University of Warsaw)
Plenary speakers:
o Johannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne)
o Jessica Frazier (Oxford)
o Dov Gabbay (London)
o Michał Heller (recipient of Templeton Prize, Kraków)
o Saul Kripke (New York)
o Laurent Lafforgue (Fields medal, Paris)
o Ricardo Strobino (Boston)
o Giuseppe Veltri (Hamburg)
o Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Toronto)
o Jan Woleński (Kraków, Rzeszów)
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