Michael Redhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 981121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Redhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Redhead |
| SIGNATURE | REDHEAD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Truth and Provability
The views of Redhead ([2004]) are defended against the argument by Panu Raatikainen ([2005]). The importance of informal rigour is canvassed, and the argument for the a priori nature of induction is explained. The significance of Gödel's theorem is again rehearsed.
Asymptotic reasoning
Mathematics and the Mind
Granted that truth is valuable we must recognize that certifiable truth is hard to come by, for example in the natural and social sciences. This paper examines the case of mathematics. As a result of the work of Gödel and Tarski we know that truth does not equate with proof. This has been used by Lucas and Penrose to argue that human minds can do things which digital computers can't, viz to know the truth of unprovable arithmetical statements. Th…
Weinberg's proof of the spin-statistics theorem
The ‘Jericho effect’ and Hegerfeldt non-locality
Quests of a realist
Bucking the system
From Physics to Metaphysics
From Physics to Metaphysics
The book is drawn from the Tarner lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructionists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the…
From physics to metaphysics
The book is drawn from the Tarner Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructivists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the n…
Particle Labels and the Theory of Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics
We extend the work of French and Redhead [1988] further examining the relation of quantum statistics to the assumption that quantum entities have the sort of identity generally assumed for physical objects, more specifically an identity which makes them susceptible to being thought of as conceptually individuatable and labelable even though they cannot be experimentally distinguished. We also further examine the relation of such hypothesized iden…
Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World. By Bernard D’Espagnat. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 280. Price £30.00 Hb., £10.95 Pb.) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 159, April 1990, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Nonlocal Influences and Possible Worlds—A Stapp in the Wrong Direction
Stapp ([1971], [1977], [1985a], henceforth Stapp 1) claims to give a proof of the existence of nonlocal influences acting on correlated spin-1/2 particles in the singlet state which does not require any particular interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM). (Except Stapp holds that the proof fails under a many-worlds interpretation of QM—a claim we analyse in 1.2.) Recently, in responding to Redhead's ([1987], pp. 90-6) criticism that the Stapp 1 p…
Gibbs' paradox and non-uniform convergence
The Lakatos Award Lecture: The Nature of Reality
Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Do the Bell Inequalities Require the Existence of Joint Probability Distributions
Fine has recently proved the surprising result that satisfaction of the Bell inequality in a Clauser-Horne experiment implies the existence of joint probabilities for pairs of noncommuting observables in the experiment. In this paper we show that if probabilities are interpreted in the von Mises-Church sense of relative frequencies on random sequences, a proof of the Bell inequality is nonetheless possible in which such joint probabilities are as…
Quantum Physics and the Identity of Indiscernibles
This paper is concerned with the question of whether atomic particles of the same species, i. e. with the same intrinsic state-independent properties of mass, spin, electric charge, etc, violate the Leibnizian Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles, in the sense that, while there is more than one of them, their state-dependent properties may also all be the same. The answer depends on what exactly the state-dependent properties of atomic par…
Ontological Economy and Grand Unified Gauge Theories
In his paper, “Grand Unified Gauge Theories and the Number of Elementary Particles,“ Robert Weingard (1984) suggests what he calls the Extended Redhead's Principle (ERP) for elementary particles: “Two particles for which there are conceivable circumstances in which one can be ‘rotated’ or reoriented into the other are the same (species of) particles” (p. 154). The philosophical soundness of such a principle is questionable
Space, Time and Causality: An Essay in Natural Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Space, Time and Causality: An Essay in Natural Philosophy. By J.R. Lucas. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. viii + 206. Price £19.50, pb. £8.95) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead King’s College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 144, July 1986, Pages 453–457, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220205 Published: 01 July 1986
Novelty And Confirmation
On the Impossibility of Inductive Probability
How the Laws of Physics Lie
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access How the Lams of Physics Lie. By Nancy Cartwright. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. 221. Price £16.00, pb. £7.95) M. L. G. Redhead M. L. G. Redhead Chelsea College University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 137, October 1984, Pages 513–514, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219075 Published: 01 October 1984
Unification in Science
Quantum Physics and the Identity of Indiscernibles
This paper is concerned with the question of whether atomic particles of the same species, i. e. with the same intrinsic state-independent properties of mass, spin, electric charge, etc, violate the Leibnizian Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles, in the sense that, while there is more than one of them, their state-dependent properties may also all be the same. The answer depends on what exactly the state-dependent properties of atomic par…
Models in Physics
Symmetry in intertheory relations
Particle Labels and the Theory of Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics
We extend the work of French and Redhead [1988] further examining the relation of quantum statistics to the assumption that quantum entities have the sort of identity generally assumed for physical objects, more specifically an identity which makes them susceptible to being thought of as conceptually individuatable and labelable even though they cannot be experimentally distinguished. We also further examine the relation of such hypothesized iden…
On the Impossibility of Inductive Probability
Nonlocal Influences and Possible Worlds—A Stapp in the Wrong Direction
Stapp ([1971], [1977], [1985a], henceforth Stapp 1) claims to give a proof of the existence of nonlocal influences acting on correlated spin-1/2 particles in the singlet state which does not require any particular interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM). (Except Stapp holds that the proof fails under a many-worlds interpretation of QM—a claim we analyse in 1.2.) Recently, in responding to Redhead's ([1987], pp. 90-6) criticism that the Stapp 1 p…
Do the Bell Inequalities Require the Existence of Joint Probability Distributions
Fine has recently proved the surprising result that satisfaction of the Bell inequality in a Clauser-Horne experiment implies the existence of joint probabilities for pairs of noncommuting observables in the experiment. In this paper we show that if probabilities are interpreted in the von Mises-Church sense of relative frequencies on random sequences, a proof of the Bell inequality is nonetheless possible in which such joint probabilities are as…
Gibbs' paradox and non-uniform convergence
Novelty And Confirmation
Ad Hocness and the Appraisal of Theories
On Neyman's Paradox and the Theory of Statistical Tests
The Lakatos Award Lecture: The Nature of Reality
Mathematics and the Mind
Granted that truth is valuable we must recognize that certifiable truth is hard to come by, for example in the natural and social sciences. This paper examines the case of mathematics. As a result of the work of Gödel and Tarski we know that truth does not equate with proof. This has been used by Lucas and Penrose to argue that human minds can do things which digital computers can't, viz to know the truth of unprovable arithmetical statements. Th…
Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Unification in Science
Orthodoxy in Quantum Mechanics
On Neyman's Paradox and the Theory of Statistical Tests
Symmetry in intertheory relations
Ad Hocness and the Appraisal of Theories
Two Essays on Entropy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Two Essays on Entropy. By Rudolf Carnap. Edited by Abner Shimony. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 1977. Pp. xxii+115.) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 117, October 1979, Pages 364–366, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219456 Published: 01 October 1979
Models in Physics
Experimental Tests of the Sum Rule
Recent discussions of experimental tests of the Sum Rule have been carried out in the context of the special circumstances attending the Cross-Ramsey experiment. A more general analysis of possible tests is presented. A technical mistake of Fine and Glymour concerned with a misunderstanding of the physics of the Cross-Ramsey experiment is explained and a detailed analysis of a thought experiment based on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen wave function …
How the Laws of Physics Lie
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access How the Lams of Physics Lie. By Nancy Cartwright. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. 221. Price £16.00, pb. £7.95) M. L. G. Redhead M. L. G. Redhead Chelsea College University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 137, October 1984, Pages 513–514, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219075 Published: 01 October 1984
Unification in Science
On the Impossibility of Inductive Probability
Ontological Economy and Grand Unified Gauge Theories
In his paper, “Grand Unified Gauge Theories and the Number of Elementary Particles,“ Robert Weingard (1984) suggests what he calls the Extended Redhead's Principle (ERP) for elementary particles: “Two particles for which there are conceivable circumstances in which one can be ‘rotated’ or reoriented into the other are the same (species of) particles” (p. 154). The philosophical soundness of such a principle is questionable
Space, Time and Causality: An Essay in Natural Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Space, Time and Causality: An Essay in Natural Philosophy. By J.R. Lucas. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. viii + 206. Price £19.50, pb. £8.95) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead King’s College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 144, July 1986, Pages 453–457, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220205 Published: 01 July 1986
Novelty And Confirmation
Do the Bell Inequalities Require the Existence of Joint Probability Distributions
Fine has recently proved the surprising result that satisfaction of the Bell inequality in a Clauser-Horne experiment implies the existence of joint probabilities for pairs of noncommuting observables in the experiment. In this paper we show that if probabilities are interpreted in the von Mises-Church sense of relative frequencies on random sequences, a proof of the Bell inequality is nonetheless possible in which such joint probabilities are as…
Quantum Physics and the Identity of Indiscernibles
This paper is concerned with the question of whether atomic particles of the same species, i. e. with the same intrinsic state-independent properties of mass, spin, electric charge, etc, violate the Leibnizian Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles, in the sense that, while there is more than one of them, their state-dependent properties may also all be the same. The answer depends on what exactly the state-dependent properties of atomic par…
Gibbs' paradox and non-uniform convergence
The Lakatos Award Lecture: The Nature of Reality
Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World. By Bernard D’Espagnat. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 280. Price £30.00 Hb., £10.95 Pb.) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 159, April 1990, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Nonlocal Influences and Possible Worlds—A Stapp in the Wrong Direction
Stapp ([1971], [1977], [1985a], henceforth Stapp 1) claims to give a proof of the existence of nonlocal influences acting on correlated spin-1/2 particles in the singlet state which does not require any particular interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM). (Except Stapp holds that the proof fails under a many-worlds interpretation of QM—a claim we analyse in 1.2.) Recently, in responding to Redhead's ([1987], pp. 90-6) criticism that the Stapp 1 p…
Particle Labels and the Theory of Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics
We extend the work of French and Redhead [1988] further examining the relation of quantum statistics to the assumption that quantum entities have the sort of identity generally assumed for physical objects, more specifically an identity which makes them susceptible to being thought of as conceptually individuatable and labelable even though they cannot be experimentally distinguished. We also further examine the relation of such hypothesized iden…
From Physics to Metaphysics
The book is drawn from the Tarner lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructionists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the…
From physics to metaphysics
The book is drawn from the Tarner Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructivists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the n…
From Physics to Metaphysics
Philosophy (26 works) · Epistemology (22 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (15 works) · Physics (15 works) · Quantum Mechanics and Applications (13 works) · Philosophy of science (12 works) · Quantum mechanics (10 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Theoretical physics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)