Simon Saunders
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Professor Simon Saunders at the 1st Ockham Debate, held at the T.S.Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, on 13 May 2013
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| Born |
30 August 1954 London |
| Residence | Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Fields | Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater |
University of Oxford Christ's College, Cambridge King's College, London |
| Thesis | Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Redhead |
| Doctoral students | include Sherrilyn Roush, Oliver Pooley, David Wallace, and Alastair Wilson. |
Simon Wolfe Saunders (born 30 August 1954) is a British philosopher of physics. He is noted for his work on quantum mechanics (particularly the many-worlds interpretation-the Everett interpretation), on identity and indiscernibility in physics, and on structural realism.
Saunders is currently Professor of Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Merton College, having moved to Oxford in 1996. He has previously held permanent posts at Harvard University (1990-1996), and temporary or visiting positions at Wolfson College, Oxford (1985–89), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989-1990), Harvard (2001), École Polytechnique (2004), University of British Columbia (2005), Perimeter Institute (2005), and IMéRA (L’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées) (2010). He is married to Kalypso Nicolaïdis; they have two children.
Saunders was an early graduate of the Physics and Philosophy undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford. He then studied the part III Mathematics Tripos at Christ's College, Cambridge under Martin Rees, John Polkinghorne, and Peter Goddard, and completed his PhD at King's College, London in 1989 under the supervision of Michael Redhead. His thesis title was ‘Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory’.
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