CFP: Knowledge, Reality and Value: East and West

Abstract: 150 words

Email to: [email protected]

Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted

Subtopics:

Knowledge and Reality, Reality and Appearance, Skepticism, Gnosticism, Agnosticism Knowledge and Justification, Knowledge and Justification, Sources of Knowing, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Rationalism and Empiricism, Sociology of Knowledge, Mysticism and Science, God and Absolute, Transcendence and Immanence, Subjectivity and Objectivity, Transcendentalism, Monism and Pluralism, Non-dual Consciousness, Personal Identity, Functionalism, Mind-Body Dualism, Structuralism, Post Modernism, Virtue and Knowledge, Doctrine of Forms Form and Matter, Morality and Society, Consciousness and Freedom, Free Will and Determinism, Taoism, Enlightened Anarchy, Confucius Ethics, Perfectionist and Situational Ethics, Moral Relativism, Spirituality and Modernity, Humanism and Positivism, Ethnic Identity and Culture, Human Nature and Human Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Consumption and Morality, Politicizing Consumer Culture and Effects on Morality, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Cultural Transformation, Culture and Morality, Christian Ethics, Buddhist Ethics, Hindu Ethics, Jewish Ethics, Islamic Ethics and Global Ethics and Politics. The above list is suggestive and not exhaustive.

There will be also two trips inside India (pre-conference trip and post conference trip).

Advisory Board Members:  

Linda B. Elder (USA), Panos Eliopoulos (Greece), Gordon Haist (USA),  Robin Kar (USA) Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland), Simi Malhotra (India), Maria Marczewska (Poland), Debkumar Mukhopadhyay (India), Eve Mullen (USA), JoAnne Myers (USA), Ming Shao (China), Nancy Snow (USA),Tommi Lehtonen (Finland), Andrew Ward (UK), Su-Chen Wu (Taiwan)

Conference Director: Chandana Chakrabarti

Contact: Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D., Vice President Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion ([email protected])

Publication: Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion

1. Books and papers: Magnus Publications
2. Journal of Indian Philosophy and religion
3. Interdisciplinary Journal

Papers from our last four conferences have been published by the Cambridge Scholars Press and by Magnus Publications.

Books:

• Revisiting Mysticism
• Politics of War
• Politics, Pluralism and Religion
• Spirituality and Morality in the Contemporary World
• After Secularization: A Philosophical Study of the Preconditions of Religion
• Some Central Topics in Hinduism
• Introduction to Hinduism and Buddhism

If you are interested to submit your manuscript for book or paper, please contact Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti and send book proposal.