Paul Redding (born 1948) is an Australian

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and emeritus professor of philosophy at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

. He is known for his research on Hegel's philosophy and the tradition of

German idealism German idealism is 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 ...

more generally. In particular he has pursued the relation of Hegel's logic to the approach to logic in

analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a broad movement within Western philosophy, especially English-speaking world, anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis as a philosophical method; clarity of prose; rigor in arguments; and making use of formal logic, mat ...

and

pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics� ...

and, more recently, the tradition of

Platonism Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato. Platonism has had a profound effect on Western thought. At the most fundam ...

. 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 Australi ...

Education

Redding earned his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in 1984 from the University of Sydney.

Bibliography

* Redding, P. (2023). ''Conceptual Harmonies: The Origins and Relevance of Hegel's Logic''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. * 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. * Redding, P. (1999). ''The Logic of Affect''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. * Redding, P. (1996). ''Hegel's Hermeneutics''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

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 Academic staff of the University of Sydney Continental philosophers Living people Nietzsche scholars Philosophers of religion Hegelian philosophers Kantian philosophers Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Hegel scholars {{reli-philo-bio-stub