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Professor Michael Redhead FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1991
Year of birth
1929
Year of death
2020
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy

Last post

Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Centennial Professor

1999 - 2002

University of Cambridge Professor of History and Philosophy of Sciences

1987 - 1997

King's College London University of London Professor of Philosophy of Physics

1984 - 1987

Publications

Incompleteness, nonlocality, and realism: a prolegomenon to the philosophy of quantum mechanics

Published in 1987

Physics for pedestrians

Published in 1989

From physics to metaphysics

Published in 1995

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Professor Rae Langton FBA

Ethical aspects of speech act theory and social epistemology; metaphysics of properties; history of philosophy, especially Kant; free speech, hate speech and media ethics; feminist perspectives on pornography and objectification

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Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah FBA

The philosophy of mind and language, of race and racism, and of literature and culture; ethics (including the role of experiment); honour; idealisation and ideals; social identity; African and African-American intellectual history.

Kwame Anthony Appiah FBA

Professor Helen Steward FBA

The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.

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