Paul Redding is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he taught from 1991 to 2016. He had previously completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Sydney and taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a philosophy fellow at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He has published widely in the area of German idealist philosophy and, especially, the logic of G.W.F. Hegel and the relation of Hegel's philosophy to contemporary analytic philosophy. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Past President of the Australasian Philosophical Association, and a Past Honorary President of the Australian Hegel Society.