Jeremy Butterfield
| Jeremy Butterfield | |
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| Born | December 23, 1954 |
| Residence | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Fields | Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science |
| Institutions |
All Souls College, Oxford Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Logic and time (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor |
D.H. Mellor David Malament |
| Doctoral students |
Tim Crane |
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Website http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ |
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Tim Crane
Joseph Melia
Guido Bacciagaluppi
Paul Castell
Jan Hendrik Schmidt
Mark Hogarth
Paul Mainwood
Charlotte Werndl
Adam Caulton
Nicholas Teh
Lena Zuchowski
Rob Clifton (co-supervised with Michael Redhead)
Thomas Breuer (co-supervised with Michael Redhead)
Constantine Pagonis (co-supervised with Michael Redhead)
Meir Hemmo (co-supervised with Michael Redhead)
Katinka Ridderbos (co-supervised with Michael Redhead)
Dennis Lehmkuhl (co-supervised with Oliver Pooley and Harvey Brown)
Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield FBA (born 1954) is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, noted particularly for his work on philosophical aspects of quantum theory, relativity theory and classical mechanics.
Jeremy Butterfield obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1984; he was supervised by Hugh Mellor and David Malament. He was a Lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge University and was later promoted to Reader in 1997. In 1998, he became a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford; he returned to the University of Cambridge in his present position in 2006. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Sydney.
Butterfield is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and of the Mind Association. He previously served on the governing board of the Philosophy of Science Association and on the executive committee of the British Philosophical Association. He co-founded the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, and edited it until 2001. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series.
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