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{{Short description|British academic (1929–2020)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| birth_place = 20203112df=y}}Analytic philosophy>AnalyticScientific structuralismVotsis, 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.| education = Westminster SchoolUniversity College London (PhD, 1970)| institutions = Wolfson College, CambridgeKing's College London| main_interests = MetaphysicsPhilosophy of physics| influences = Karl PopperMichael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 15.Simon Saunders, Harvey Brown (philosopher)>Harvey Brown, Steven French| notable_ideas = Experimental metaphysicsMichael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 41.| thesis_title = The Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions| thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1970}}Michael Logan Gonne Redhead {{postnominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (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.BOOK, Stuart Brown, Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers: 2 Volumes,weblink 14 December 2015, 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing, 978-1-84371-096-7, 864–866, Redhead was Centennial Professor in CPNSS (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.WEB, Professor Michael Redhead,weblink LSE, 14 December 2015, 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.WEB, Professor Michael Redhead,weblink Wolfson College, Cambridge, 14 December 2015, He died on 31 August 2020 at the age of 90.WEB,weblink Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times,

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