Jeremy Butterfield | |
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Born | 23 December 1954 |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford Trinity College, Cambridge |
Thesis | Logic and Time (1984) |
Doctoral advisors | D. H. Mellor David Malament |
Doctoral students | Tim Crane |
Main interests | Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science |
Notable ideas | Detensed theory of time |
Website | http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ |
Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield FBA (born 23 December 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.