From assismariano at ufrn.edu.br Tue Jul 19 12:21:11 2022 From: assismariano at ufrn.edu.br (FRANCISCO MARIANO) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:21:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Workshop on Consciousness and the Self - 3rd WoCoLoR Message-ID: Please circulate widely. Apologies for multiple emails. -------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------- Workshop on CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF 3rd World Congress on Logic and Religion (3rd WoCoLoR) Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) November 4-8, 2022 - Deadline: July 31, 2022 - Submission: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mZqUCNLJyQUN53XBQSmrMsZ?domain=easychair.org - Website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hQQzCOMKzVTArx4KguvVuUC?domain=logicandreligion.com - Notification of acceptance: August 10 -------------------------------------- SUBMISSION -------------------------------------- The Workshop on "Consciousness and the Self" will take place at the Banaras Hindu University in November, 2022, as part of the 3rd World Congress on Religion and Religion (3rd WoCoLoR): https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Pi_dCP7LAXf4AXMx2F1VNNw?domain=logicandreligion.com https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hQQzCOMKzVTArx4KguvVuUC?domain=logicandreligion.com We invite submissions of contributed papers on general topics related to Consciousness and the Self including but not restricted to: - Physicalistic accounts of consciousness and the self - Substance dualism and dualistic approaches to consciousness - Pansychistic and cosmopsychistic approaches to consciousness and the self - The concept of soul in philosophical and world religious traditions - Theories of consciousness vs. theories of God (e.g. panentheism vs. panshychism) Abstracts must have a maximum of 600 words and be written in English according to our template; they must be submitted via Easychair by July 31 (note that prior registration with EasyChair is required). Notification of acceptance will be released on August 15, 2020. In the submission, one of the keywords must be "Consciousness and the Self". At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the congress. - Template: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aly_kn8Z18oti9heH7UVP27LkTzqXQ?e=nKgVQm - EasyChair Submission: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mZqUCNLJyQUN53XBQSmrMsZ?domain=easychair.org -------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER -------------------------------------- - Stephen Priest, Oxford University (UK) -------------------------------------- PUBLICATIONS -------------------------------------- Accepted abstractions will be published in the congress proceedings, which will be available during the congress. After the meeting authors will be invited to submit a complete version of their works, which will be peer-reviewed and published in a book and/or special issues of journals with publishers of international recognition. Peer-reviewed papers of previous WoCoLoR?s appeared as special issues of Logica Universalis (Springer), Sophia (Springer) and the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications): https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mKYMCQnMBZf64PrWKTkTghH?domain=logicandreligion.com -------------------------------------- CHAIR -------------------------------------- - Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil -------------------------------------- SPONSORSHIP -------------------------------------- The workshop "Consciousness and the Self" is being sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From assismariano at ufrn.edu.br Thu Jul 21 07:48:21 2022 From: assismariano at ufrn.edu.br (FRANCISCO MARIANO) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:48:21 -0300 Subject: [SydPhil] Special Issue on INDIAN RELIGIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF GOD: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: ----------------------- 1st Call for Papers ----------------------- *INDIAN RELIGIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF GOD* Special Issue of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions *Deadline for Submission*: November 30, 2022 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zmrXC81V0PTj82loPtn8NCv?domain=logicandreligion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Although Western philosophy of religion has developed many useful exegetical and philosophical tools for evaluating Abrahamitic conceptions of God as they apply to respective philosophical traditions, there is a growing awareness that such monotheistic Western approaches might conceal and prohibit a culturally sensitive and philosophically adequate appreciation of the numerous concepts of God found in religious traditions outside of the Western hemisphere. This awareness, which is part of the motivation beyond what is known as cross-cultural philosophy of religion, encompasses both the need for and the encouragement of new dialogues between Western philosophy of religion and non-Western traditions as a means to foster a deeper mutual understanding of the variety of concepts of God or the divine developed in the history of humankind. Divinity in some Indian religions, such as *Vai??avism*, *?aivism* and *?aktism*, is often conceived monotheistically, as a supreme OmniGod (much like Western accounts of God.) Despite the evidence supporting this, these Indian concepts of God exhibit certain peculiarities that threaten the idea of their being monotheistic (or even theistic, one might say.) For instance, they manifest a plurality of divine forms, referred to as devat?s and avat?ras (divinely incarnations), they subsequently assimilate or incorporate other divinities in the Hindu pantheon and continue to exist in ambiguous relationships with them (an example being those between Vi??u, ?iva, Brahm?, and the Goddess), they are united with ordinary living beings in various ways, and they sometimes possess (exude?) ultimately impersonal or abstract nature. Moreover, in the Indian subcontinent, theistic traditions have resided alongside those that are decidedly non-theistic (for instance, Jain, Buddhist, and naturalist traditions), or non-theistically inclined (such as Ny?ya and perhaps Yoga within Hinduism), and possibly a[mono]theistic (as in the C?rv?ka and M?m??s? schools) ? although concepts of divinity in all these traditions are up for debate. Given all of this, we might ask: are Indian theistic traditions really monotheistic? Or, to put it in conceptual terms, is their concept of God a monotheistic one? Or, is their concept of divinity theistic at all? Accepting that there are different conceptions of divinity among the Indian religious and philosophical traditions, we are then behoved to pose this question: *how can these concepts of God be philosophically characterized?* What divine properties does any given tradition ascribe to its divinity? Can this divinity be described in a consistent way? Or is it a contradictory concept? If the concept is contradictory, how would this affect its intelligibility? Does any of those concepts of God have some advantage over traditional philosophical accounts of God? How do they relate to well-known accounts of God, such as those of classical theism, pantheism, panentheism, process theism, open theism, etc.? And what are the difficulties peculiar to these Indian concepts of God? This special issue of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zefmC91WPRTmVlvGNHEqvIB?domain=springer.com) will address these questions and approach the concept of God in Indian religions from a contemporary philosophical perspective. We invite submissions of papers on general philosophical topics related to Indian religions and the concept of God, including but not restricted to the following themes: - God in Indian religious traditions. - Divine attributes and Indian concepts of divinity. - Indian concepts of divinity vs. western concepts of God. - Atheistic or agnostic arguments against the coherence of Indian concepts of God. - Vai??avism/?aivism/?aktism: monotheistic, panentheistic or what? - Language and God in Indian traditions. - Divinity and Hindu deities. - Relation of the divine with the world: creation and difference/non-difference. - Consciousness and Indian concepts of divinity: cosmopsyshism, panenpsychism or what? Papers should be submitted through Sophia?s Editorial Manager ( https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uWgqC0YKPvi207K1gU2AdcE?domain=editorialmanager.com specifying that they are being submitted to the special issue on Indian Religions and the Concept of God, and obey Sophia's submission guidelines ( https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/secaCgZ0N1il5orMwT3iri4?domain=springer.com. Submitted papers will go through a double-blind peer-review process. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2022. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: