Paul Redding | |
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Born | 1948 Sydney, Australia |
Education | |
Thesis | The Dialectic of Text and Context: Language, Understanding and the Human Sciences (1984) |
Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic |
Institutions | University of Sydney |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion German idealism Pragmatism |
Paul Redding (born 1948) is an Australian philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is known for his research on Hegel's philosophy and the tradition of German idealism more generally. In particular he has pursued the relation of Hegel's logic to the approach to logic in analytic philosophy and pragmatism and,more recently,the tradition of Platonism. [1] [2] He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. [3]
Redding earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Sydney. [4]