Michael Logan Gonne Redhead FBA (30 December 1929 – 31 August 2020) was a British academic and philosopher of physics.

Michael Redhead
Born
Michael Logan Gonne Redhead

(1929-12-30)30 December 1929
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]

Biography

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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

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  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. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Professor Michael Redhead". LSE. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Professor Michael Redhead". Wolfson College, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times".