Biography:Michael Redhead

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Short description: British academic (1929–2020)
Michael Redhead
Born
Michael Logan Gonne Redhead
Died31 August 2020(2020-08-31) (aged 90)
EducationWestminster School
University College London (PhD, 1970)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Scientific structuralism[1]
InstitutionsWolfson College, Cambridge
King's College London
ThesisThe Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions (1970)
Main interests
Metaphysics
Philosophy of physics
Notable ideas
Experimental metaphysics[2]

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

  1. 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.
  2. Michael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 41.
  3. Michael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 15.
  4. Stuart Brown (2005). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers: 2 Volumes. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 864–866. ISBN 978-1-84371-096-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=uL3UAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA864. Retrieved 14 December 2015. 
  5. "Professor Michael Redhead". http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=philcent%40lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2015. 
  6. "Professor Michael Redhead". http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-michael-redhead. Retrieved 14 December 2015. 
  7. "Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times". https://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/the-times.