Miklós Rédei (born October 4, 1952, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of physics. He is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics.
Rédei holds an MA in physics and MA in philosophy from Eötvös Loránd University, and a PhD in philosophy from the same university from 1982. He was awarded his doctorate (Candidate of Sciences) in physics in 1989, his habilitation in philosophy in 1997, and became Doctor of Sciences in philosophy in 2001. He has been an assistant professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, University of California, Irvine, senior fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and visiting fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich.
Rédei has published extensively on the logical foundations of quantum mechanics, probabilistic causation, mathematical physics, the history of mathematics, as well as the life and works of John von Neumann.
Books Rédei is the author or coauthor of: Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach (Kluwer, 1998).Reviews of Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach: Stanley P. Gudder (1998), Foundations of Physics, , Mirko Navara, Karl Svozil (2001), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B, , The Principle of the Common Cause (with Gábor Hofer-Szabó and László E. Szabó, Cambridge University Press, 2013).
His edited volumes include: John von Neumann and the Foundations of Physics (edited with Michael Stölzner, Kluwer, 2001)Reviews of John von Neumann and the Foundations of Physics: Michael Dickson (2003), Philosophy of Science, , Tracy Lupher (2003), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, , John von Neumann: Selected Letters (American Mathematical Society, 2005).Reviews of John von Neumann: Selected Letters: George Dyson (2007), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Christopher Lance (2008), Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Roman Murawski, The Vienna Circle in Hungary (edited with András Máté and Friedrich Stadler, Springer, 2011)Review of The Vienna Circle in Hungary: Maté Szabó (2013), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic,
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