Michael Redhead | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael Logan Gonne Redhead (1929-12-30)30 December 1929 |
| Died | 31 August 2020(2020-08-31) (aged 90) |
| Education | |
| Education | Westminster School University College London (PhD, 1970) |
| Thesis | The Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions (1970) |
| Leonardo Castillejo3 | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic Scientific structuralism1 | |
| Institutions | Wolfson College, Cambridge King's College London |
Doctoral students | Steven French |
Main interests | Metaphysics Philosophy of physics |
Notable ideas | Experimental metaphysics2 |
Michael Logan Gonne Redhead FBA (30 December 1929 – 31 August 2020) was a British academic and philosopher of physics.
Biography
Redhead was born on 30 December 1929 in London and educated there at Westminster School.4
Redhead was Centennial Professor in CPNSS (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.5
Redhead was an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and was Vice-President (1992–1996) and Acting President 1992 and 1993, Wolfson College, and formerly Head, CU Dept of History and Philosophy of Science.6
He died on 31 August 2020 at the age of 90.7
References
References
- Votsis, I. (2004), The Epistemological Status of Scientific Theories: An Investigation of the Structural Realist Account, University of London, London School of Economics, PhD Thesis, p. 33.
- Michael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 41.
- "Michael Redhead" (PDF). The British Academy. Retrieved 18 March 2026.
- Stuart Brown (2005). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers: 2 Volumes. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 864–866. ISBN 978-1-84371-096-7. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- "Professor Michael Redhead". LSE. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- "Professor Michael Redhead". Wolfson College, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- "Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times".