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