Robert Pippin
Robert B. Pippin | |
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| Born | September 14, 1948 Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Trinity College, Hartford Pennsylvania State University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Kant and the Problem of Transcendental Philosophy: Unity and Form in the "Critique of Pure Reason" (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Rosen |
| Other advisor | Thomas Seebohm |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Postanalytic Hegelianism |
| Notable students | Jon Stewart, James Kreines, Allen Speight, Dean Moyar |
| Main interests | History of philosophy, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, modernity, normativity |
| Notable ideas | Non-metaphysical (or post-Kantian) interpretation of Hegel, Criticism of structuralism |
Robert Buford Pippin (born September 14, 1948) is an American philosopher. He is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the college at the University of Chicago.