Redhead, Michael, 1929-2020

Michael Redhead FBA was the most distinguished and influential British philosopher of physics of the second half of the 20th century. After a degree in physics (1950) and some fifteen years running his family’s business, he undertook a doctorate in physics (completed 1970) and thereafter became a philosopher of science, especially physics. He rose rapidly through the academic ranks at the University of London, and was Professor at University of Cambridge from 1987 to 1997, when he returned to the London School of Economics. Through his writings, his teaching and his academic leadership, he was the pre-eminent influence, from about 1980 onwards, in establishing the philosophy of physics as a discipline in the United Kingdom.

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