Paul Redding is an Australian philosopher and professor of philosophy at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one o ...

. He is known for his research on Kantian philosophy and the tradition of

German idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

and its relation to

analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United ...

and

pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. ...

. He is a fellow of the

Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Austra ...

Education

Redding earned his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in 1984 from the University of Sydney.

Bibliography

* Redding, P. (2016). ''Thoughts, Deeds, Words, and World: Hegel's Idealist Response to the Linguistic "Metacritical Invasion"''. Noesis Press imprint of Davies Group, Publishers. * Redding, P. (2009). ''Continental Idealism: Leibniz to Nietzsche''. Abingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. * Redding, P. (2007). ''Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Bubbio, P., Redding, P. (2012). ''Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era''. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. * ''Hegel's Hermeneutics'' (Cornell University Press, 1996) * ''The Logic of Affect'' (Cornell University Press, 1999)

References

External links

Redding's Personal Website

Redding at the University of Sydney
21st-century Australian philosophers 20th-century Australian philosophers University of New South Wales alumni University of Sydney alumni University of Sydney faculty Continental philosophers Living people Nietzsche scholars Philosophers of religion Hegelian philosophers Kantian philosophers Year of birth missing (living people) {{reli-philo-bio-stub