Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion
International Interdisciplinary Conference

Language, Thought and Reality:
Science, Religion and Philosophy

August 1-4, 2000
Calcutta, India

The Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion will hold an International Interdisciplinary Conference in Calcutta, India 1-4 August, 2000. The Conference theme is Language, Thought and Reality: Science, Religion and Philosophy.

The theme can be addressed critically, reflectively and creatively by the philosophical, religious and scientific traditions of the world's great civilizations.  The program will include plenary addresses, volunteered papers, invited papers and panel discussions.

Registered participants who are members of professional associations or societies are encouraged to submit proposals for holding meetings in the conference on behalf of their associations or societies.

The organizers are committed to upholding the highest academic standards, with emphasis on the exchange of ideas and face-to-face dialogues among thinkers drawn from a wide range of the world's cultural traditions and movements.

Some suggested topics:

Knowledge and Reality, Appearance and Reality, Alternative Logics, Relativity and Relativism, Relativism and Absolutism, Moral Relativism, Ontological Relativism, Epistemological Relativism, Cultural Relativism, Deconstructionism, Existential Phenomenology, Culture and Meaning, Emptiness, Theories of Truth, Theories of Meaning, Theories of Consciousness, Eternal Sound, Realism and Idealism, Materialism and Spiritualism, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Transcendence and Immanence, Skepticism, Agnosticism, Mysticism, Esotericism, Sociology of Religion, Science and Religion, Science and Philosophy.
 

Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti
Elon College Campus Box 2336
Elon College, N.C. 27244, USA.
E-mail: chakraba@numen.elon.edu
Phone: (336) 538-2705
Fax: (336) 538-2627
 

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