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born 1948 United States

Robert Buford Pippin (born September 14, 1948) is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

United States
Philosophers

Also known as: Robert Buford Pippin, Robert Pippin

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In any remembering, thinking or imagining, although the object of my intending is some state of affairs or other, I am also potentially aware as I intend that what I am doing is an act of remembering, thinking, or imagining. My asserting that S is P is not an assertion of mine unless I am implicitly aware as I assert that I am asserting, not entertaining the possibility that, S is P.

Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (1989)

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