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Michael Redhead

Michael Redhead

British academic (1929–2020)

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

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Biography

Redhead was born on 30 December 1929 in London and educated there at Westminster School.[3]

Redhead was Centennial Professor in CPNSS (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[4]

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.[5]

He died on 31 August 2020 at the age of 90.[6]

References

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    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. [2]
    Michael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 41.
  3. [3]
    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.
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    "Professor Michael Redhead". LSE. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. [5]
    "Professor Michael Redhead". Wolfson College, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
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    "Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times".
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