Michael Redhead

Michael Redhead
Born Michael Logan Gonne Redhead
30 December 1929
Education Westminster School
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic
Scientific structuralism[1]
Main interests
 Metaphysics
Philosophy of physics
Notable ideas
 Experimental metaphysics[2]

Michael Logan Gonne Redhead (born 30 December 1929) is 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 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]

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 (1 August 2005). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers: 2 Volumes. A&C Black. 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.
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