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Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on German idealism, including "Kant\u2019s Theory of Form" (1982), "Hegel\u2019s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness" (1989), "Modernism as a Philosophical Problem" (1991), and "Hegel\u2019s Practical Philosophy" (2008). He has also written on literature ("Henry James and Modern Moral Life" (2000)) and film ("Hollywood Westerns and American Myth" (2010). His most recent books are "Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy" (2010), "Hegel on Self-Consciousness" (2011), and "Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy" (2012), and "Kunst als Philosophie: Hegel und die Philosophie der bildlichen Moderne" (2012). He has been visiting professor at universities in Amsterdam, Jena, Frankfurt, and at the Coll\xe8ge de France. He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of The American Philosophical Society.

This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Pippin's talk - 'The Significance of Self-Consciousness in Idealist Theories of Logic' - at the Aristotelian Society on 27 January 2014. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.