Miklós Rédei

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 Ludwig Maximillian University.

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

His first book, Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach, is an overview of quantum logic catering to physicists with a philosophical interest in the mathematics underpinning it. His second book, John von Neumann: Selected Letters, is the first substantial collection of letters from the influential mathematician covering the wide range of scientific fields to which he contributed.

Bibliography

• Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach (Kluwer, 1998).
• John von Neumann: Selected Letters (American Mathematical Society, 2005).
• The Principle of the Common Cause (Cambdrige University Press, 2013).