Jeremy Butterfield

Jeremy John Nicholas Butterfield FBA (born 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.

Biography

Butterfield is the son of John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield and Isabel-Ann Kennedy. Butterfield obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1984; he was supervised by Hugh Mellor and David Malament. He was a Lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge University and was later promoted to Reader in 1997. In 1998, he became a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford; he returned to the University of Cambridge in his present position in 2006. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Sydney.

Butterfield is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and is currently President-elect of the Mind Association. He previously served on the governing board of the Philosophy of Science Association and on the executive committee of the British Philosophical Association. He co-founded the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, and edited it until 2001. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series.