The XI International Conference of Eastern Philosophy at Unicamp

Oriental Logics and Languages

CLE - UNICAMP

September 16, 17 and 18, 2025

About

In September 2025, the Center for Logic, Epistemology and History of Science (CLE) at Unicamp will host the XI International Colloquium on Oriental Philosophy, dedicated to the theme "Logics and Oriental Languages". Recognized as one of the main research centers in non-classical and paraconsistent logics, the CLE will be the stage for a unique meeting, bringing together specialists from Brazil and the world to explore the logical-philosophical traditions of the East.
In this edition, the contributions of the following will be presented, in a systematic, academic and unprecedented way:
• Chinese logics of Kong Sunlong and Hui Zi,
• Taoist and Moist logics,
• Indian logics, from Nagarjuna to Chandrakirti,
• And, in particular, Nishida's Logic of Place, the foundation of Contemporary Eastern Philosophy.
The event marks a pioneering effort in Brazil to establish a fruitful dialogue between Eastern and Western logics and languages. One of its main objectives is to introduce Brazilian researchers to the logical and linguistic structures that underlie Eastern philosophies, promoting a critical exchange with Western traditions. In an increasingly interconnected world, this debate becomes urgent and necessary.
With the presence of renowned specialists in oriental philosophy from Brazil, USA, Europe, China, India and Japan, the colloquium will be a milestone in intercultural philosophy in the country.

Lecturers

Robin Wang	Dilip Luondo	Schuchen Xiang
Giorgio Sinedino	Antonio Florentino Neto	Leonardo Alves Vieira
Diogo da Silva	Balaganapathi Devarakonda	Giuseppe Ferraro
Qiaorong Yan	Oswaldo Giacoia Jr	Joaquim Monteiro
Fabio Bertato	José Jorge de Carvalho	Gereon Kopf
André Bueno	Alexandre Leone	Felipe Ferrari
Photo Tremblay-C	Plínio Tsai	Carlos Cepeda
Jacob Bender	Ryōsuke Ōhashi	Daniel Omar Perez
Manuel Rivera

Schedule

8:45 AM

16/09/25

Conference 01

The Book of Master Mo and the discovery of "ancient Chinese logic" (1895-1946)

Tuesday,

Giorgio Sinedino

9:30 AM

16/09/25

Conference 02

Perception and inference in buddhist epistemology

Tuesday,

Giuseppe Ferraro

10:15 AM

16/09/25

Coffee break

Tuesday,

Coffee break

10:30 AM

16/09/25

Conference 03

For an illogical logic: The logic of contradiction as a discursive form of Nishida Kitarō's thought

Tuesday,

Felipe Ferrari

11:15 AM

16/09/25

Conference 04

Nishitani Keiji and the śūnyatā discourse

Tuesday,

Carlos Cepeda

0:00 PM

16/09/25

Lunch

Tuesday,

Lunch

2:00 PM

16/09/25

1st Communications Table

Nishida's Concept of Place and the Japanese Language
Lucas Murata

Hermeneutic Analysis of Nyāyasūtra: Logical-Epistemological Foundations and the Central Role of the Means of Valid Knowledge (pramāṇa) in the Nyāya Soteriological Tradition
Isabela Barros Ribeiro

Rethinking Patriarchalism in Chinese Philosophy: The Power of the Feminine in Dao De Jing
Mariana de Rossi Venturini

Philosophical Counterpoint: An Approach between Heidegger and Śaṅkarācārya from the Perspective of Language and Time
Larissa Dantas Camargo Mello

Tuesday,

1st Communications Table

3:30 PM

16/09/25

Coffee break

Tuesday,

Coffee break

3:45 PM

16/09/25

Conference 06

Dialectics in Rabbinic Thought in Abraham Joshua Heschel

Tuesday,

Alexandre Leone

4:30 PM

16/09/25

Conference 07

The Problem of Logic in Vasubandhu: Focused on the Modalities of the Emptiness of the ātman and the Emptiness of the dharmas

Tuesday,

Joaquim Monteiro

5:15 PM

16/09/25

Conference 08

The Modern Interpretation of Pre-Qin Confucianism: The Role and Significance of Translation

Tuesday,

Qiaorong Yan

8:00 AM

17/09/25

Conference 10

Logic and Schematism in Nishida Kitarō

Wednesday,

Jacynthe Tremblay

8:45 AM

17/09/25

Conference 11

The Improbable Sage: Towards a Latin American Reading of Ding the Cook in the Zhuangzi

Wednesday,

Manuel Rivera

9:30 AM

17/09/25

Conference 12

The (epistemo) logic of “negation of negation” in Suresvarācārya

Wednesday,

Dilip Loundo

10:15 AM

17/09/25

Coffee break

Wednesday,

Coffee break

10:30 AM

17/09/25

Conference 13

Culture and Politics on Tanabe Hajime's "logic of the species"

Wednesday,

Diogo César Porto da Silva

11:45 AM

17/09/25

Conference 14

Grammar, Logic and Ontology: An Intercultural Approach from Nietzsche's Perspectivism

Wednesday,

Oswaldo Giacoia Jr.

0:00 PM

17/09/25

Lunch

Wednesday,

Lunch

2:00 PM

17/09/25

2nd Communications Table

The Universalist Vocabulary of Okakura Tenshin
Rodney Ferreira

White Papers, Concept Translation, Chinese Philosophy, Translation Policies in International Relations
Sofia Bastos Pontieri Augusto

Lecture title yet to be defined
Tauan Sousa

A Tree Without Roots: An Analysis of the Meditation Object Transmitted by the Seven Women to the Deva Indra in the Sūtra of the Seven Women (佛說七女經)
Patricia Guernelli Palazzo Tsai

Wednesday,

2nd Communications Table

3:30 PM

17/09/25

Coffee break

Wednesday,

Coffee break

3:45 PM

17/09/25

Conference 15

A Crossroads of Logics: Eastern, Western, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian

Wednesday,

José Jorge de Carvalho

4:30 PM

17/09/25

Conference 16

Logic(s) of/for the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra

Wednesday,

Fábio Bertato

5:15 PM

17/09/25

Conference 17

Lei (類) Thinking: Making A Sense of Chinese Logic

Wednesday,

Robin Wang

8:00 AM

18/09/25

Conference 18

The Intersection of Language: AI, Haiku, and the Quantum Logic of Meaning

Thursday,

Ryosuke Ohashi

8:45 AM

18/09/25

Conference 19

Beyond the Binaries: Exploring Epistemologies of Classical Indian Philosophies

Thursday,

Balaganapathi Devarakonda

9:30 AM

18/09/25

Conference 20

The Non-Duality of the “Conditioned” and “Unconditioned”: Hongzhou Chan Buddhism on Reconciling the Morality/Prudence Distinction

Thursday,

Jacob Bender

10:15 AM

18/09/25

Coffee break

Thursday,

Coffee break

10:30 AM

18/09/25

Conference 21

From Rectification to Relational Flux: The Rectification of the Ontological-Logical Notion in Early Chinese Philosophy

Thursday,

Plínio Tsai

11:15 AM

18/09/25

Conference 22

Negotiating Logic, Languages, and Worldviews: Introducing the Fourth Person Philosophy

Thursday,

Gereon Kopf

0:00 PM

18/09/25

Lunch

Thursday,

Lunch

2:00 PM

18/09/25

Conference 23

The Unconscious and the Ideogram: Lacan and China

Thursday,

Daniel Omar Perez

2:45 PM

18/09/25

Conference 24

The search for a new Junzi for contemporary China

Thursday,

André Bueno

3:30 PM

18/09/25

Conference 25

A more complete humanism: a Confucian alternative to the liberal-capitalist subject

Thursday,

Schuchen Xiang

4:15 PM

18/09/25

Book launches

The Logic of Shoku-hi in Kitarō Nishida and its Relation to Chinese Huayan Buddhism

Thursday,

Antonio Florentino Neto

4:15 PM

18/09/25

Book launches

The suffering of the negative: some considerations on the legitimacy of extra-European philosophy

Thursday,

Leonardo Alves Vieira

Organization:

Graduate Program in Social Sciences - UNICAMP

Brazil-China Study Group - DERI - UNICAMP

Center for Logic, Epistemology and History of Science - CLE - UNICAMP

Institute of Economics - IE - UNICAMP

Coordination:

Antonio Florentino Neto, Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano, Daniel Omar Perez and Fábio Maia Bertato

Organizing committee:

Daniel Omar Perez; Antonio Florentino Neto; Fábio Maia Bertato; Kelly Ferreira; Plínio Tsai; Tauan Souza; Rafael Lima; Ricardo Mazzeo; Luhan Galvão Alves