Professor Emeritus Paul Redding
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Professor Emeritus Paul Redding

MB BS (Hons) UNSW, BA (Hons) PhD Sydney, FAHA
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
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+61 2 9351 2862
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+61 2 9451 3918
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The University of Sydney

Paul Redding works mainly in the areas of Kantian philosophy and the tradition of continental idealism. In particular he is interested in the relationship of this tradition to the later movements of analytic philosophy and pragmatism, and in issues in idealist logic, philosophical psychology and philosophy of religion. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Selected publications

Publications

Books

  • Redding, P. (2016). Thoughts, Deeds, Words, and World: Hegel's idealist response to the linguistic "metacritical invasion". Aurora: Davies Group Publishers.
  • Redding, P. (2009). Continental Idealism: Leibniz to Nietzsche. Abingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2007). Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Books

  • Bubbio, P., Redding, P. (2012). Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Book Chapters

  • Redding, P. (2024). What Kind of Philosophy Might Survive the History of Its Failures? Gadamerian Reflections on Stephen Gaukroger's "The Failure of Philosophy". In Charles Wolfe, Anik Waldow (Eds.), Science and the Shaping of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Stephen Gaukroger, (pp. 263-273). Switzerland: Springer.
  • Redding, P. (2022). McDowell's Rejection of Recognition-Based Readings of Hegel in Chapter 4 of the Phenomenology of Spirit. Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings, (pp. 96-118). London: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2021). Political Ontology and Rational Syllogistic in Hegel's Objective Spirit. In Sebastian Stein, Joshua I. Wretzel (Eds.), Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, (pp. 185-202). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

Journals

  • Redding, P. (2024). HEGEL’S (ANTICIPATED) ANSWER TO PEIRCE’S STALLED CRITIQUE OF CANTOR’S ANALYTIC CONTINUUM. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 14(2), 479-507. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2023). Intuitionist and Classical Dimensions of Hegel’s Hybrid Logic. History and Philosophy of Logic, 44(2), 209-224. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2022). Diagrammatic and Modal Dimensions of the Syllogisms of Hegel and Peirce. Axioms, 11(12). [More Information]

Conferences

  • Redding, P. (2003). Language and Affect. Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS/ASCS 2003), Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.

Reference Works

  • Redding, P. (2015). Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Metaphysics. In Duncan Pritchard (Eds.), Oxford Bibliographies - Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
  • Redding, P. (2010). German philosophy. In L. Burns, F. Leigh, S. Gardner, G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Eds.), A Companion to Australian and New Zealand Philosophy. Carlton: Monash University ePress.
  • Redding, P. (2006). Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In Edward N. Zalta (Eds.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (pp. 136-149). online: Stanford University Press.

2024

  • Redding, P. (2024). HEGEL’S (ANTICIPATED) ANSWER TO PEIRCE’S STALLED CRITIQUE OF CANTOR’S ANALYTIC CONTINUUM. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 14(2), 479-507. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2024). What Kind of Philosophy Might Survive the History of Its Failures? Gadamerian Reflections on Stephen Gaukroger's "The Failure of Philosophy". In Charles Wolfe, Anik Waldow (Eds.), Science and the Shaping of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Stephen Gaukroger, (pp. 263-273). Switzerland: Springer.

2023

  • Redding, P. (2023). Intuitionist and Classical Dimensions of Hegel’s Hybrid Logic. History and Philosophy of Logic, 44(2), 209-224. [More Information]

2022

  • Redding, P. (2022). Diagrammatic and Modal Dimensions of the Syllogisms of Hegel and Peirce. Axioms, 11(12). [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2022). McDowell's Rejection of Recognition-Based Readings of Hegel in Chapter 4 of the Phenomenology of Spirit. Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings, (pp. 96-118). London: Routledge. [More Information]

2021

  • Redding, P. (2021). Actualist versus Naturalist and Conceptual Realist Interpretations of Hegel’s Metaphysics. Hegel Bulletin, 42(1), 19-38. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2021). Political Ontology and Rational Syllogistic in Hegel's Objective Spirit. In Sebastian Stein, Joshua I. Wretzel (Eds.), Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, (pp. 185-202). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

2020

  • Redding, P. (2020). Being the rope in a tug of war: Markus and Rorty as readers of Hegel in the '70s, '80s and '90s. Thesis Eleven, 160(1), 22-33. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2020). Hegel and Recent Analytic Metaphysics. In Marina F. Bykova, Kenneth R. Westphal (Eds.), The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, (pp. 521-539). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2020). Hegel’s Actualist Idealism and the Modality of Practical Reason. Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, (pp. 27-49). Oxfordshire: Routledge. [More Information]

2019

  • Redding, P. (2019). An Hegelian Actualist Alternative to Naturalism. In Not known (Eds.), Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives From Idealism and Pragmatism, (pp. 120-143). TBC. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2019). Hegel and the Tractarian Conception of Judgement. In Jakub Macha, Alexander Berg (Eds.), Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference, (pp. 161-180). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2019). Hegel on the Proofs and the Personhood of God: Studies in Hegel's Logic and Philosophy of Religion. Religious Studies, 55(4), 599-603. [More Information]

2018

  • Redding, P. (2018). Hegel and McDowell on Perceptual Experience and Judgment. Hegel and McDowell: Perceptual Experience, Thought and Action, (pp. 117-131). New York: Springer Link. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2018). Hegel's Subjective Logic as a Logic for (Hegel's) Philosophy of Mind. Hegel Bulletin, 39(1), 1-22. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2018). Hegel's Treatment of Predication Considered in the Light of a Logic for the Actual World. Hegel Bulletin, 40(1), 51-73. [More Information]

2017

  • Redding, P. (2017). Aristotelian Master and Stoic Slave: From Epistemic Assimilation to Cognitive Transformation. In Rachel Zuckert, James Kreines (Eds.), Hegel on Philosophy in History, (pp. 71-87). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2017). Findlay's Hegel: Idealism as Modal Actualism. Critical Horizons, 18(4), 359-377. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2017). Hegel and Sellars's 'Myth of Jones': Can Sellars have more in common with Hegel than Rorty and Brandom suggest? Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism and Realism, (pp. 41-58). London: Bloomsbury.

2016

  • Redding, P. (2016). If Reason is 'in the World', Where Exactly is it Located? European Journal of Philosophy, 24(3), 712-724. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2016). Not Knowing what the Right Hand is Doing: Rorty's "Ambidextrous" Analytic Redescription of Nineteenth-Century Hegelian Philosophy. In Kristin Gjesdal (Eds.), Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses, (pp. 373-383). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2016). Thoughts, Deeds, Words, and World: Hegel's idealist response to the linguistic "metacritical invasion". Aurora: Davies Group Publishers.

2015

  • Redding, P. (2015). An Hegelian Solution to a Tangle of Problems Facing Brandom's Analytic Pragmatism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(4), 657-680. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2015). Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 2015, 1-33.
  • Redding, P. (2015). Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Metaphysics. In Duncan Pritchard (Eds.), Oxford Bibliographies - Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

2014

  • Redding, P., Bubbio, P. (2014). Hegel and the ontological argument for the existence of God. Religious Studies, 50(4), 465-486. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2014). Mathematics, Computation, Language and Poetry: The Novalis Paradox. In Dalia Nassar (Eds.), The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy, (pp. 221-238). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2014). Pragmatism, Idealism, and the Modal Menace: Rorty, Brandom, and Truths about Photons. The European Legacy, 19(2), 174-186. [More Information]

2013

  • Redding, P. (2013). Freud, Hegel and Philosophy after the Copernican and French Revolutions: Thoughts on Rebecca Comay's Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 17, 34-40.
  • Redding, P. (2013). Hegel and Analytic Philosophy. In Allegra de Laurentiis, Jeffrey Edwards (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, (pp. 313-319). London: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2013). Hegel, Aristotle and the Conception of Free Agency. In Gunnar Hindrichs, Axel Honneth (Eds.), Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegelkongress 2011 (Freedom: Hegel Congress 2011: Spirit and History Voulume 1), (pp. 389-404). Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.

2012

  • Redding, P. (2012). Kantian Origins: One Possible Path From Transcendental Idealism to a Post-Kantian Theology. In P.D. Bubbio, P. Redding (Eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, (pp. 1-21). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Redding, P. (2012). McDowell's Radicalization of Kant's Account of Concepts and Intuitions: A Sellarsian (and Hegelian) Critique. Verifiche: rivista trimestrale di scienze umane, 41(1-3), 11-39.
  • Bubbio, P., Redding, P. (2012). Preface. In P.D. Bubbio, P. Redding (Eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, (pp. vii-xix). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2011

  • Redding, P. (2011). Feeling, Thought and the Movement of Subjectivity. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, (13), 41-51.
  • Redding, P. (2011). German Idealism. In George Klosko (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, (pp. 348-368). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2011). Hegel's Anticipation of the Early History of Analytic Philosophy. Owl of Minerva, 42(1-2), 19-39.

2010

  • Redding, P. (2010). German philosophy. In L. Burns, F. Leigh, S. Gardner, G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Eds.), A Companion to Australian and New Zealand Philosophy. Carlton: Monash University ePress.
  • Redding, P. (2010). The Possibility of German Idealism after Analytic Philosophy: McDowell, Brandom and Beyond. In Jack Reynolds; Ed Mares; James Chase; James Williams (Eds.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, (pp. 191-203). London, UK: Continuum.
  • Redding, P. (2010). Two Directions for Analytic Kantianism: Naturalism and Idealism. In Mario De Caro, David Macarthur (Eds.), Naturalism and Normativity, (pp. 263-285). New York: Columbia University Press.

2009

  • Redding, P. (2009). Continental Idealism: Leibniz to Nietzsche. Abingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2009). G. F. W. Hegel. In Oppy, Graham and Trakakis, Nick (Eds.), The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume IV: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Religion, (pp. 49-60). Durham: Acumen Publishing. [More Information]

2008

  • Redding, P. (2008). Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought. In Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos and George Vassilacopoulos (Eds.), The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking, (pp. 133-149). Melbourne, Australia: re.press.
  • Redding, P. (2008). The Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: The Dialectic of Lord and Bondsman in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In Frederick C. Beiser (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, (pp. 94-110). New York: Cambridge University Press.

2007

  • Redding, P. (2007). Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Redding, P. (2007). Hegel, Fichte and the Pragmatic Contexts of Moral Judgement. In Espen Hammer (Eds.), German idealism : contemporary perspectives, (pp. 225-242). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
  • Redding, P. (2007). Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 3(2-3), 16-31.

2006

  • Redding, P. (2006). Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In Edward N. Zalta (Eds.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (pp. 136-149). online: Stanford University Press.

2005

  • Redding, P. (2005). G. W. F. Hegel e Pierre Bourdieu: storia, kantismo e teoria sociale. Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, 5, 139-163.
  • Redding, P. (2005). Pierre Bourdieu: From Neo-Kantian to Hegelian Critical Social Theory. Critical Horizons, 6(1), 183-204. [More Information]

2004

  • Redding, P. (2004). 'Gemma Corradi Fiumara, The Mind'S Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic And Philosophical Inquiry'. European Journal of Philosophy, 12(1), 135-138.
  • Redding, P. (2004). Schemata, Symbols, And Syllogisms Of Statehood In The Thought Of Kant And Hegal. In Karl P. Ameriks, Michael Forster, Claus Dierksmeier, Kurt R. Meist, Karl Ameriks (Eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch des deutschen Idealismus: Der Begriff des Staates (International Yearbook of German Idealism: The Concept of the State), (pp. 151-176). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

2003

  • Redding, P. (2003). Esplicitare L'Inferenzialismo di Hegel. In Luggiu, Testa (Eds.), Hegel Contemporaneo: La ricezione americana di Hegel a confronto con la tradizione europea, (pp. 501-522). Italy: Guerinin E Associati.
  • Redding, P. (2003). Hegel and Peircean Abduction. European Journal of Philosophy, 11(3), 295-313. [More Information]
  • Redding, P. (2003). Language and Affect. Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS/ASCS 2003), Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.

2002

  • Redding, P. (2002). History as Celebration or Justification? Rorty versus the Non-Metaphysical Hegelians. Clio: a journal of literature, history, and the history of philosophy, 31(4), 403-422.
  • Redding, P. (2002). Syllogisms and Sociality: The Logical Bases of Practical Reason in Kant and Hegel. In Not known (Eds.), Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for Gyorgy Markus, (pp. 256-288). TBC.

2001

  • Redding, P. (2001). Embodiment, Conceptuality and Intersubjectivity in Idealist and Pragmatist Approaches to Judgement. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 15, 257-271.
  • Redding, P. (2001). Kant: Transcendental Idealist and/or Cognitive Scientist. In Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ralph Schumacher (Eds.), Kant und die Berliner Aufklarung, (pp. 77-84). Germany: Sage Publications.
  • Redding, P. (2001). Wilkins, Hegel and History. In Aleksandar Jokic (Eds.), Essays in Honor of Burleigh Wilkins From History to Justice, (pp. 71-94). United States: Sage Publications.

Selected Grants

2013

  • Sydney Intellectual History Network, Milam J, Aspromourgos A, Borghesi F, Caine B, Ferng J, Fitzmaurice A, Gaukroger S, Helbig D, Karalis V, Kerridge I, Macarthur D, Nassar D, Redding P, Sadurski W, Sevel M, Sluga G, Smith M, Waldow A, Walton K, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)
  • Analysis in the continental idealist tradition: the development of Leibnizs analytic method by Kant and Hegel and its implications for contemporary philosophy, Redding P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2012

  • Expression and Constitution of the Self: Investigating the Interplay between First and Third-Person Perspectives, Renaudie P, Redding P, DVC Research/International Research Collaboration Award (IRCA)