Biography:Michael Redhead
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Short description: British academic (1929–2020)
Michael Redhead | |
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| Born | Michael Logan Gonne Redhead |
| Died | 31 August 2020 (aged 90) |
| 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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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
- ↑ 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=uL3UAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA864. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ↑ "Professor Michael Redhead". http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=philcent%40lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ↑ "Professor Michael Redhead". http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-michael-redhead. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ↑ "Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times". https://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/the-times.
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