NOV 4 Chair: Marcin Trepczyński

RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC Mohamed Almisbkawy, Nov 4, 11:30-12:00

LOGIC, SOUL AND GOD Varun Agarwal, Nov 4, 12:00-12:30

THE LOGIC OF GOD'S GENDER Tatiana Barkovskiy, Nov 4, 12:30-13:00

THE TWO SUCCESSIVE LOGICAL AXIOMATIC STEPS IN ACCEPTING ISLAM Mahdi Behniafar, Nov 4, 14:45-15:15

HEALING IN HINDUISM: A RATIONALITY OF FAITH-BASED HEALTHCARE PRACTICES Smita Chakraborty, Nov 4, 15:15-15:45

PRAMĀṆAVĀRTTIKA AND IT’S COMMENTARIAL LITERATURE IN TIBET: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Sherab Chomphel, Nov 4, 16:00-16:30

EXISTENTIAL OPTIMISM AND NATURAL SELECTION: ON THE PROBLEM OF EVIL FOR ATHEISTS Mousa Mohammadian, Nov 4, 16:30-17:00

KANT’S ARGUMENT FOR RATIONAL FAITH IN GOD Chandler Hatch, Nov 4, 17:00-17:30

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: THE UNSAID LOGIC OF THE TRACTATUS Sushobhona Pal, Nov 4, 17:30-18:00

NOV 5 MORNING Chair: Mousa Mohammadian

THE HUMAN ART AS AN ARGUMENT FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE. ON ONTIC INTERRELATEDNESS BETWEEN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE SACRED, Wiesna Mond-Kozłowska (presented by Daniele Buccio), Nov 5, 10:15-10:45

RATIONALITY OF FAITH: THE EMBODIED SOLUTION Elena Kalmykova, Nov 5, 10:45-11:15

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GOD AS A SET OF UNCERTAINTIES AND UNKNOWNS TO HUMAN BEINGS Tanmoy Konar, Nov 5, 11:30-12:00

THE EVIL EPSILON Talia Leven, Nov 5, 12:00-12:30

BUDDHISTS PHILOSOPHY AS A TOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Subhasmita Maharana and Ajit Kumar Behura, Nov 5, 12:30-13:00

NOV 5 AFTERNOON Chair: Purushottama Bilimoria

RATIONALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH Riya Manna, Nov 5, 14:45-15:15

GOD IS JUST FINE: A REPLY TO DE MARCO Elton Marques, Nov 5, 15:15-15h45

DEFINING PRAMĀṆA THROUGH TIBETAN BUDDHISM Tenzin Minkyi, Nov 5, 16:00-16:30

SCIENCE AND SANĀTANA: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC SPHERES OF THE VEDAS, PURĀṆAS, AND THE INDIAN EPICS Tirthendu Ganguly, Nov 5, 16:30-17:00

THE BUDDHIST THEORY OF COMPASSION (KARUŅĀ) IN VINAYA PITAKA Upamita Mukherjee, Nov 5, 17:00-17:30

HINDU DOCTRINE ABOUT THE VEDAS AS AN INVENTED TRADITION, Koenraad Elst, Nov 5, 17-30-18:00

NOV 6 MORNING Chair: Elena Kalmykova

JOHANN-HEINRICH ALSTED'S RAMISM IN HIS "METHODUS SACROSANCTAE THEOLOGIAE" (1614), Ruxandra Irina Vulcan, Nov 6, 10:15-10:45

INTELLECTUAL DUTY ON RELIGIOUS SUBMISSION Akbar Qorbani, Nov 6, 10:45-11:15

SIMULATED SĀṄKHYA AND LIMITS OF LOGIC Vasudeva Rao, Nov 6, 11:30-12:00

BERKELEY’S GOD AND SOLIPSISM Vegitha Reddy, Aman Tripathi, P.R. Bhat, Nov 6, 12:00-12:30

WORLDWIDE RELIGIOUS CRISIS AND SWĀMĪ VIVEKĀNANDA’S UNIVERSAL RELIGION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS Dipak Roy, Nov 6, 12:30-13:00

NOV 7 MORNING Chair: Jason Cronbach Van Boom

INFINITELY RE-READABLE TEXTS: ADAPTING CONCEPTS FROM TRANSFINITE MATHEMATICS TO THE STUDY OF THE RELIGIOUS USE OF SACRED TEXTS Jason Cronbach Van Boom, Nov 7, 9:45-10:15

IS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE HUMAN SELF RELATIVE TO THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS? Shruti Sharma, Nov 7, 10:15-10:45

RELIGIOUS ATHEISM: EXPANDING THE TERRITORY OF RELIGION Mayavee Singh, Nov 7, 10:45-11:15

THE LIBERAL TRIANGLE OF SHASTRI, GOKHALE AND GANDHI: EARLY 20TH INDIAN THINKING ON LIBERALISM Purushottama Bilimoria, Nov 7, 11:30-12:00

THE NOTION OF GOD, EXISTENCE AND CONRADICTION Jean-Yves Beziau, Nov 7, 12:00-12:30

MYSTICISM, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION IN BERTRAND RUSSELL'S "MYSTICISM AND LOGIC" Tatiana Barkovskiy, 12:30-13:00

NOV 7 AFTERNOON Chair:

MINDFULNESS RESEARCH: MICRO-PHENOMENOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING MULTICULTURAL PHILOSOPHY OF SELF Abhishek Tripathi, Nov 7, 14:45-15:15

SEPARATING THE ‘SUPERSTITION’ FROM ‘TRUE HINDUISM’: THE BOUNDARY MAKING IN 19TH CENTURY COLONIAL INDIA Harshvardhan Tripathy, Nov 7, 15:15-15:45

DETERMINISM, DESIRE, AND THE ABSENCE OF GOD: UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM THROUGH TARKOVSKY’S STALKER AND CHANAKYA’S NIYATI CHAKRA Nishant Upadhyay, Nov 7, 16:00-16:30

TWO CATEGORIES OF INFERENCE IN THE NYAYA-SUTRA Katja Utroša, Nov 7, 16:30-17:00

BEYOND RATIONALITY: GANDHI’S ARGUMENTS FOR EXISTENCE OF GOD Bharti Sehta, Nov 7, 17:00-17:30

THE NON-RETRIBUTIVE KARMA DOCTRINE, Koenraad Elst, Nov 7, 17:30-18:00