Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness

This book provides a critical commentary on Hegel’s introductory essay to the first book of his magnum opus, the Science of Logic. Robb Dunphy makes an extended case for the importance of the influence of Pyrrhonian Scepticism on the beginning of Hegel’s Logic and provides a novel interpretation of the “problem of beginning”.

Robb Dunphy is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He has previously held research fellowships at the Goethe University Frankfurt, University College Dublin, and the University of Hamburg, and has taught philosophy at Northeastern University London, the University of Winchester, and the University of Sussex. His primary research interests are in the theoretical philosophy of Kant and the German Idealists and in the history of scepticism. He is the co-editor of Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy and has published research articles in journals including Apeiron, The Review of Metaphysics, the Hegel Bulletin, and Logos and Episteme.