Michael Redhead

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 30 December 1929
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]
Influences Karl Popper[3]
Influenced Simon Saunders, Harvey Brown, Steven French

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. 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".