Robert Pippin
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Robert Pippin is an American philosopher best known for his influential work on German Idealism, especially Hegel, and on modern European philosophy.
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| Robert Pippin canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Pippin Context triple: [Ethical Life, isInterpretedBy, Robert Pippin]
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Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher is an influential contemporary philosopher of science known for his work on scientific realism, the structure and progress of science, and the ethical and social dimensions of scientific practice.
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Malcolm C. Rorty
Malcolm C. Rorty was an American economist and statistician best known as a co-founder and early leader in the development of the National Bureau of Economic Research and modern economic data analysis.
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C.
Richard Fantl
Richard Fantl was a film editor known for his work on mid-20th-century American movies, including the 1955 aviation drama "Top Gun."
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D.
Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher known for his work in ordinary language philosophy, skepticism, aesthetics, and film, particularly through his distinctive readings of Wittgenstein and Emerson.
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Roger Crisp
Roger Crisp is a contemporary British moral philosopher known for his work on utilitarianism, ethical theory, and the history of moral philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Pippin Target entity description: Robert Pippin is an American philosopher best known for his influential work on German Idealism, especially Hegel, and on modern European philosophy.
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A.
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher is an influential contemporary philosopher of science known for his work on scientific realism, the structure and progress of science, and the ethical and social dimensions of scientific practice.
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B.
Malcolm C. Rorty
Malcolm C. Rorty was an American economist and statistician best known as a co-founder and early leader in the development of the National Bureau of Economic Research and modern economic data analysis.
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C.
Richard Fantl
Richard Fantl was a film editor known for his work on mid-20th-century American movies, including the 1955 aviation drama "Top Gun."
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D.
Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher known for his work in ordinary language philosophy, skepticism, aesthetics, and film, particularly through his distinctive readings of Wittgenstein and Emerson.
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E.
Roger Crisp
Roger Crisp is a contemporary British moral philosopher known for his work on utilitarianism, ethical theory, and the history of moral philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | philosophy ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| familyName | Pippin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
German Idealism
NERFINISHED
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Hegelian philosophy ⓘ Kantian philosophy ⓘ aesthetics ⓘ film theory ⓘ modern European philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American pragmatism
NERFINISHED
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Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
German Idealism
NERFINISHED
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Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ Kant NERFINISHED ⓘ freedom ⓘ modernism ⓘ normativity ⓘ self-consciousness ⓘ |
| name | Robert B. Pippin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to the study of German Idealism
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interpretive work on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit ⓘ philosophical interpretations of modernist art and film ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
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Fatalism in American Film Noir NERFINISHED ⓘ Hegel on Ethics and Politics NERFINISHED ⓘ Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit NERFINISHED ⓘ Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness NERFINISHED ⓘ Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Hollywood Westerns and American Myth NERFINISHED ⓘ Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations NERFINISHED ⓘ Modernism as a Philosophical Problem NERFINISHED ⓘ The Persistence of Subjectivity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor
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Professor of Philosophy ⓘ Professor of Social Thought ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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