Beyond Faith and Rationality

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Montreal. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Oxford (UK), Notre Dame (USA) and Québec (Canada). He is the author of several papers on Logic and Philosophy of Religion and guest-editor of a couple of special issues on the field of Logic and Religion, namely  the special issues on the Concept of God (2019) and Formal Approaches to the Ontological Argument (2018) of the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications), the special issue on Logic and Philosophy of Religion (2017) of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (Springer) and the special issue on Logic and Religion (2017) of Logica Universalis (Springer). He is one of the creators and main organizers of the World Congress on Logic and Religion series. He is presently Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil).Benedikt Paul Göcke is a Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and a Member of the Faculty of Theology at University of Oxford.  He is also a Member of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Göcke is author of:  A Theory of the Absolute  (Macmillan, 2014),  Alles in Gott? (Friedrich Pustet, 2012) and editor of After Physicalism (Notre Dame, 2012). He has published articles in journals such as The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Zygon, Sophia, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Theologie und Philosophie, among others.Jean-Yves Beziau has a Ph.D. in Mathematics (University of Paris 7) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, Brazil). He has done research in France, Brazil, Poland, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD) and Switzerland. He is presentlyprofessor of logic in Rio de Janeiro at the University of Brazil, and the President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the promoter of Universal Logic as a general theory of logical structures, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Logica Universalis and book series Studies in Universal Logic, both published by Birkhäuser/Springer, Basel. He has organized a series of events on universal logic around the world (Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio de Janeiro, 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018). He has renewed the study of the square of opposition, organizing interdisciplinary world events on the topic (Montreux 2007, Corsica, 2010, Beirut 2012, Vatican 2014, Easter Island 2016, Crete 2018) and the publication of special issues of journals and books. In 2019 he launched on January 14 the 1st World Logic Day which was celebrated in 60 locations around the world and was subsequently approved as an international day of UNESCO.Purushottama Bilimoria, PhD, is presently a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Fellow in India affiliated with Ashoka University. He is also lecturer with Legal Studies in the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as a senior fellow in Indian Philosophy with the Center for Dharma Studies at Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley. He is otherwise a Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University and Senior Fellow at University of Melbourne, in Australia. He is a Permanent Fellow with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies in Oxford University, and past visiting scholar at All Souls College, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Emory University and UC Santa Barbara, and Visiting Professor in two universities in Brazil. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, international journal of philosophy & traditions and of the Journal of Dharma Studies, both published by Springer.

• Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Beyond Faith and Rationality (Benedikt Gocke).- Part 2. Analytic Philosophy of Religion.- Chapter 2. Why Believe that there is a God? (Richard Swinburne).- Chapter 3. The Failure of van Inwagen’s Solution to the Problem of Evil (Benedikt Göcke).- Chapter 4. Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil (Eleonore Stump).- Chapter 5. Some Problems with Miracles (Agnaldo Cuoco Portugal).- Part 3. Logical Philosophy of Religion.- Chapter 6. An even more Leibnizian version of Gödel's ontological argument (Kordula Świętorzecka).- Chapter 7. A Tractarian Resolution to the Ontological Argument (Erik Thomsen).- Chapter 8. Actuality and Necessity in Anselm’s Argument: a Two-dimensional Approach (Victor Gorbatov).- Chapter 9.Some Thoughts on the Logical Aspects of the Problem of Evil (Ricardo Silvestre).- Chapter 10. The Logic of Trinity and the Filioque question in Thomas Aquinas: a Formal Approach (Fábio Bertato).- Chapter 11. Defining God’s Properties in Morse-Kelley Set Theory (Ward Blondé).- Part 4. Computational Philosophy and Religion.- Chapter 12. Talmudic Norms Approach to the Paradox of the Heap: A Position Paper (E. David).- Chapter 13. A Case Study on Computational Hermeneutics: E. J. Lowe's Modal Ontological Argument (David Fuenmayor).- Chapter 14. A Mechanically Assisted Examination of Begging the Question in Anselm's Ontological Argument (John Rushby).- Part 5. Paraconsistency and Religion.- Chapter 15. Is God Paraconsistent? (Newton da Costa).- Chapter 16. Contradictions and Rationality: An Analysis of two biblical Cases (Susana Gómez Gutiérrez).- Part 6. Logic, Language and Religion.- Chapter 17. Logic and Religion: The Essential Connection (Benjamin Murphy).- Chapter 18. From Logic in Islam to Islamic Logic (Musa Akrami).- Chapter 19. Thinking Negation in Early Hinduism and Classical Indian Philosophy (Purushottama Bilimoria).

“This book represents an exciting reference for logical contemplation on religious beliefs, yet with a strong focus on Judeo- Christian traditions.” (Huỳnh Cao Nhựt Quang, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 47 (4), December, 2021)