Michael Redhead Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	Contemporary philosophy
Michael Redhead
Birth Name:	Michael Logan Gonne Redhead
Birth Date:	30 December 1929
School Tradition:	Analytic Scientific structuralism^[1]
Education:	Westminster School University College London (PhD, 1970)
Institutions:	Wolfson College, Cambridge King's College London
Main Interests:	Metaphysics Philosophy of physics
Influences:	Karl Popper^[2]
Influenced:	Simon Saunders, Harvey Brown, Steven French
Notable Ideas:	Experimental metaphysics^[3]
Thesis Title:	The Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions
Thesis Year:	1970

Michael Logan Gonne Redhead (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]

Notes and 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. 15.
Michael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 41.
Book: Stuart Brown. Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers: 2 Volumes. 14 December 2015. 2005. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-84371-096-7. 864–866.
Web site: Professor Michael Redhead. LSE. 14 December 2015.
Web site: Professor Michael Redhead. Wolfson College, Cambridge. 14 December 2015.
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