Mercator Fellow Graham Priest will be visiting the RTG from December 1-5, 2023

We are looking forward to an intensive cooperation with Graham Priest (City University of New York), who has planned the following events during his time in Bremen:

4.12.2023
14-17 Uhr | Workshop: The Logical Structure of Dialectics

5.12.2023
14:30-16:00 | Vortrag: Introduction to Paraconsistency and Dialetheism

Outside the scheduled events he will be available for consultation at the Grazer Straße 2.

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