Michael Redhead
Michael Logan Gonne Redhead (born 30 December 1929) is a British academic and philosopher of physics.
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Born | Michael Logan Gonne Redhead 30 December 1929 |
Education | Westminster School University College London (PhD, 1970) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic Scientific structuralism[1] |
Institutions | Wolfson College, Cambridge King's College London |
Thesis | The Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions (1970) |
Main interests | Metaphysics Philosophy of physics |
Notable ideas | Experimental metaphysics[2] |
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Biography
Redhead was born on 30 December 1929 in London and educated there at Westminster School.[4]
Redhead is Centennial Professor in CPNSS (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[5]
Redhead is 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]
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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, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 15.
- 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.
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