Jeremy Butterfield
Jeremy Butterfield | |
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Jeremy Butterfield in 1982 | |
| Born | 23 December 1954 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Logic and Time (1984) |
| Doctoral advisors | D. H. Mellor David Malament |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 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.