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*The Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter, 6:2*
*November 2022*


Dear  Gary Richmond,

For the past six years, we have been compiling a list of new books and
articles published on Charles S. Peirce for this newsletter.  We are
continually impressed by the quality of the research and the liveliness of
the Peirce community.  Across the world, from China to the United States,
from Brazil to Italy, from Nigeria to Colombia, scholars are doing
exceptionally good work explaining, developing, and applying Peirce’s ideas
to a wide variety of disciplines.  We’re grateful for your support and glad
to be a part of such a wonderful and expansive community of inquirers.

Yours truly,

The Charles S. Peirce Society Executive Committee

*Spotlight on the 10-Minute Thesis Initiative*

This year, the Charles S. Peirce Society launched a new initiative to
provide a forum for the exchange and development of new ideas and to help
connect scholars throughout the world.  Conceived by Catherine Legg, the
10-Minute Thesis is an hour-and-a-half long session held online.  Three
Peirce scholars present their new research for ten minutes each, each
presentation immediately followed by twenty minutes of question and
answer.  The first session, held in February, featured presentations by
Elizabeth Cooke, Andrew Howat, and Catherine Legg.  The second session,
held in October, featured presentations by James Wible, Claudia Cristalli,
and Jeff Kasser.  Our sincere thanks to Catherine Legg and Jeff Kasser for
organizing these sessions, to the presenters, and to all those who
attended!  If you are interested in organizing the next 10-minute thesis
initiative, please let us know by emailing peircesoci...@gmail.com!

*The 2022–23 Peirce Essay Prize Winner*

Many congratulations to Scott Metzger (McMaster University) for winning
this year’s Peirce Essay Prize!  He will present his award-winning essay
“Qualifying the Reduction of Illation to Sign Relation: The Roots of
Peirce’s General Theory of Signs” at our Annual General Meeting, held in
conjunction with the Eastern APA.

*In Memoriam: Larry Laudan*

The Charles S. Peirce Society is saddened to announce the recent death of
its former president Larry Laudan.  World-renowned for his work in
epistemology, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of law, Prof.
Laudan served as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society in 2009.  We
are grateful for his service to the Society and to the profession, and we
wish his family peace and comfort.  More information on his life and work
may be found at https://larrylaudan.com/larry-laudan/obituary/

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*Logic of the Future, ed. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen*

De Gruyter continues to publish the thorough and multi-volume edition of
Peirce’s writings on the Existential Graphs.  A groundbreaking and
must-have set for any Peirce scholar, the following volumes have been
published or are forthcoming:

*Vol.1, History and Applications,* published Jan 2020 (Now also available
in paperback!)
*Vol.2/1, The Logical Tracts,* published May 2021
*Vol.2/2, The 1903 Lowell Lectures,* published May 2021
*Vol.3/1, Pragmatism,* forthcoming
*Vol.3/2, Correspondence,* forthcoming

*Have You Been Keeping Up with the Transactions?  *

The most cutting edge work on Peirce, pragmatism, and American philosophy
appears in the pages of The Transactions to the Charles S. Peirce Society.
Subscribe now to become a dues-paying member of the Society by going here

.

Recent essays published in the *Transactions* include:

   - Yael Levin Hungerford, “Charles S. Peirce on the University’s
   Political Potential”
   - Henrik Rydenfelt, “Environmental Pragmatism and the Revision of Values”
   - Laurence E. Heglar, “The Term ‘Experience’ as a Tool of Inquiry”
   - Bernardo Andrade, “Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic
   Grounds of Inquiry”
   - Jessica Wahman, “Psyche as Agent: Overcoming the ‘Free/Unfree’
   Dichotomy”
   - Michael Gifford and Scott Scheall, “Truth, Pragmatisn, and Democracy:
   Another Route to Liberal Values”
   - Audrey Brown, “Jonathan Edwards and the New World: Exploring the
   Intersection of Puritanism and Settler Colonialism”
   - Rush T. Stewart and Tom F. Sterkenburg, “Peirce, Pedigree, Probability”
   - Joshua M. Hall, “The Self-Swarm of Artemis: Emily Dickinson as
   Bee/Hive/Queen”

*Mark Your Calendars!*

January 4–7, 2023 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | APA Eastern Division Meeting
| The Peirce Society is tentatively scheduled to meet on Thursday, Jan. 5,
from 9:00 a.m.–12:50 p.m.

February 22–25, 2023 | Denver, CO | APA 

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[PEIRCE-L] Special Issue on INDIAN RELIGIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF GOD: Last Call for Papers

[FRANCISCO MARIANO]

  --- Last Call for Papers ---

*INDIAN RELIGIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF GOD*
Special Issue of SOPHIA: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions
Guest editors: Ricardo Silvestre, Alan Herbert and Purushottama Bilimoria

*Deadline for Submission:* November 30, 2022

https://www.logicandreligion.com/vaishnava-concept-of-god

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Although Western philosophy of religion has developed many useful
exegetical and philosophical tools for evaluating Abrahamitic conceptions
of God as they apply to respective philosophical traditions, there is a
growing awareness that such monotheistic Western approaches might conceal
and prohibit a culturally sensitive and philosophically adequate
appreciation of the numerous concepts of God found in religious traditions
outside of the Western hemisphere. This awareness, which is part of the
motivation beyond what is known as cross-cultural philosophy of religion,
encompasses both the need for and the encouragement of new dialogues
between Western philosophy of religion and non-Western traditions as a
means to foster a deeper mutual understanding of the variety of concepts of
God or the divine developed in the history of humankind.

Divinity in some Indian religions, such as *Vaiṣṇavism*, *Śaivism* and
*Śaktism*, is often conceived monotheistically, as a supreme OmniGod (much
like Western accounts of God.) Despite the evidence supporting this, these
Indian concepts of God exhibit certain peculiarities that threaten the idea
of their being monotheistic (or even theistic, one might say.) For
instance, they manifest a plurality of divine forms, referred to as devatās
and avatāras (divinely incarnations), they subsequently assimilate or
incorporate other divinities in the Hindu pantheon and continue to exist in
ambiguous relationships with them (an example being those between Viṣṇu,
Śiva, Brahmā, and the Goddess), they are united with ordinary living beings
in various ways, and they sometimes possess (exude?) ultimately impersonal
or abstract nature. Moreover, in the Indian subcontinent, theistic
traditions have resided alongside those that are decidedly non-theistic
(for instance, Jain, Buddhist, and naturalist traditions), or
non-theistically inclined (such as Nyāya and perhaps Yoga within Hinduism),
and possibly a[mono]theistic (as in the Cārvāka and Mīmāṁsā schools) –
although concepts of divinity in all these traditions are up for debate.
Given all of this, we might ask: are Indian theistic traditions really
monotheistic? Or, to put it in conceptual terms, is their concept of God a
monotheistic one? Or, is their concept of divinity theistic at all?

Accepting that there are different conceptions of divinity among the Indian
religious and philosophical traditions, we are then behoved to pose this
question: *how can these concepts of God be philosophically
characterized?* What
divine properties does any given tradition ascribe to its divinity? Can
this divinity be described in a consistent way? Or is it a contradictory
concept? If the concept is contradictory, how would this affect its
intelligibility? Does any of those concepts of God have some advantage over
traditional philosophical accounts of God? How do they relate to well-known
accounts of God, such as those of classical theism, pantheism, panentheism,
process theism, open theism, etc.? And what are the difficulties peculiar
to these Indian concepts of God?

This special issue of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and
Traditions (https://www.springer.com/journal/11841) will address these
questions and approach the concept of God in Indian religions from a
contemporary philosophical perspective. We invite submissions of papers on
general philosophical topics related to Indian religions and the concept of
God, including but not restricted to the following themes:

- God in Indian religious traditions.
- Divine attributes and Indian concepts of divinity.
- Indian concepts of divinity vs. western concepts of God.
- Atheistic or agnostic arguments against the coherence of Indian concepts
of God.
- Vaiṣṇavism/Śaivism/Śaktism: monotheistic, panentheistic or what?
- Language and God in Indian traditions.
- Divinity and Hindu deities.
- Relation of the divine with the world: creation and
difference/non-difference.
- Consciousness and Indian concepts of divinity: cosmopsyshism,
panenpsychism or what?

Papers should be submitted through Sophia’s Editorial Manager (
https://www.springer.com/journal/11841/submission-guidelines) specifying
that they are being submitted to the special issue on Indian Religions and
the Concept of God, and obey Sophia's submission guidelines. Submitted
papers will go through a double-blind peer-review process. The deadline for
submission is November 30, 2022.

The special issue will be guest-edited by Ricardo Silvestre, Alan Herbert
and Purushottama Bilimoria. It is scheduled to be