1st International Workshop on Oriental Logic
Time: August 30th – September 1st, 2021
Venue: Virtual via Zoom
Description:
Oriental Logic is the first of a series of international events on Buddhist, Jainist, Hinduist, and Chinese logic as well as relevant parts of the Eastern philosophy, organized by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences (IRFS) in Iran and its international partners including the Logic and Religion Association (LARA) and Logic Association of Malaysia (PMM) . It is aimed to introduce the Eastern way of reasoning to the audience of predominantly Western background in logic and philosophy in order to increase mutual understanding between different cultures. Hopefully, such efforts will lead us to a prosperous future of tolerance and peaceful co-existence all around the world.
Speakers:
Ali Naghi Baghershahi,
Imam Khomeini International University
Henk Barendregt,
Nijmegen University
Purushottama Bilimoria,
University of Melbourne
Szymon Bogacz,
Australian National University
Amita Chatterjee,
Jadavpur University
Antonino Drago,
University of Naples
Brendan S. Gillon,
University of McGill
Malcolm Keating,
Yale-NUS College
Anil Mundra,
University of Chicago
Andrey Paribok,
People's Friendship University of Russia
Graham Priest,
City University of New York
Ruzana Pskhu,
People's Friendship University of Russia
Agnieszka Rostalska,
Ghent University
Mohammad Sacket,
Imam Khomeini International University
Jaysankar Lal Shaw,
Victoria University of Wellington
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya,
San Jose State University
Organizers:
Purushottama Bilimoria,
University of Melbourne
Ali Sadegh Daghighi,
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences (IRFS)
Esa Sharahi,
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences (IRFS)
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre,
Federal University of Campina Grande
Zu Yao Teoh,
Xiamen University Malaysia
Conference Schedule:
The time unit in the following schedule is the Coordinated Universal Time or UTC.
August 30th, 2021:
(10:00 – 11:00) Organizers: Introduction
(11:00 – 12:00) Szymon Bogacz: Dharmakīrtian Inferences
(12:00 – 12:30) Break
(12:30 – 13:30) Brendan S. Gillon: Analogical Argument to Deduction: Logic in Early Classical Indian
(13:30 – 14:30) Henk Barendregt: Meaning of the unsayable
(14:30 – 15:00) Break
(15:00 – 16:00) Agnieszka Rostalska: Not for victory. The Ancient Indian logic of debate
August 31th, 2021:
(10:00 – 11:00) Amita Chatterjee: A Few Useful Insights from Nyaya Logic
(11:00 – 12:00) Jaysankar Lal Shaw 1: Notes on Indian Logic
(12:00 – 12:30) Break
(12:30 – 13:30) Anil Mundra: Contradiction and the Compossibility of Contraries in Haribhadrasūri's Theory of Non-One-Sidedness (Anekāntavāda)
(13:30 – 14:30) Ali Naghi Baghershahi: Oriental Way of Thought and Oneness of Being
(14:30 – 15:00) Break
(15:00 – 16:00) Purushottama Bilimoria: The possible conection of Jain saptabhaṅgī (seven-steps) syādvāda (indeterminism), Brāhmaṇic theories of Negation in the working of Buddhist four-cornered logic.
(16:00 – 17:00) Anand Vaidya: What is the proper categorization of non-western contributions to reasoning: logic or critical thinking? The case of Jainism
(17:00 – 17:30) Break
(17:30 – 18:30) Graham Priest: The Effable Ineffable in Daoism and Buddhism
September 1st, 2021:
(10:00 – 11:00) Mohammad Sacket: The Nyāya theory of inference, a new gloss
(11:00 – 12:00) Jaysankar Lal Shaw 2: Notes on Indian Logic
(12:00 – 12:30) Break
(12:30 – 13:30) Antonino Drago: Reconciliation of Eastern and Western ways of reasoning through intuitionist logic
(13:30 – 14:30) Malcolm Keating: Pragma-Dialectics and Early Nyāya Debate Theory
(14:30 – 15:00) Break
(15:00 – 16:00) Ruzana Pskhu: Logic contradictoriea in Sufi texts
(16:00 – 17:00) Andrey Paribok: Situation of logical discussion between representatives of different ontologies as possible ground catushkotika
Registration:
The registration time for this event has been expired now. Those who are interested in receiving their certificate should write to a.s.daghighi@gmail.com
