{{Short description|British academic (1929–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = Western philosophy | era = Contemporary philosophy | name = Michael Redhead | birth_name = Michael Logan Gonne Redhead | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|FBA}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|12|30|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|08|31|1929|12|30|df=y}} | school_tradition = Analytic<br />Scientific structuralism<ref>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.</ref> | education = Westminster School<br />University College London (PhD, 1970) | institutions = Wolfson College, Cambridge<br />King's College London | main_interests = Metaphysics<br />Philosophy of physics | notable_ideas = Experimental metaphysics<ref>Michael Redhead, ''From Physics to Metaphysics'', Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 41.</ref> | thesis_title = The Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1970 | doctoral_advisor = Leonardo Castillejo<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Redhead |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4962/Memoirs-21-11-Redhead.pdf |website=The British Academy |format=PDF |access-date=2026-03-18}}</ref> | doctoral_students = Steven French }} '''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.<ref name="Brown2005">{{cite book|author=Stuart Brown|title=Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers: 2 Volumes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uL3UAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA864|accessdate=14 December 2015|date=2005|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-84371-096-7|pages=864–866}}</ref>
Redhead was Centennial Professor in CPNSS (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.<ref name=LSE>{{cite web|title=Professor Michael Redhead|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=philcent%40lse.ac.uk|website=LSE|accessdate=14 December 2015}}</ref>
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.<ref name=WCC>{{cite web|title=Professor Michael Redhead|url=http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-michael-redhead|website=Wolfson College, Cambridge|accessdate=14 December 2015}}</ref>
He died on 31 August 2020 at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://epaper.thetimes.com/app/THE343|title=Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times}}</ref>
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