Harvey Robert Brown (born April 4, 1950) is a British

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. He is a professor of

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at the

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and an emeritus

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, as well as a fellow of the British Academy. From 1978 to 1984, he was assistant professor at the

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. In 1984 he became university lecturer in philosophy of physics at the University of Oxford, where he was promoted to reader in philosophy in 1996 and professor of philosophy of physics in 2006.

Selected works

*1984. ''Albert Einstein. A simple man of vision'', in Portuguese, Brasiliense, São Paulo. *1988. H.R. Brown and H.R. Harré (eds.). ''Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory'', Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reprinted in paperback, 1990. *1991. S. Saunders and H.R. Brown (eds.). ''The Philosophy of Vacuum''. Oxford:

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. *1996. 'Mindful of quantum possibilities'. ''

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'', 47: 189–200. * * 1999. 'Aspects of objectivity in quantum mechanics'. In, J. Butterfield and C. Pagonis (eds.), From Physics to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 45–70. * * *2005. ''Physical Relativity. Space-time structure from a dynamical perspective''. Oxford:

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* Philosophers of physics 1950 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford Academic staff of the University of São Paulo Lakatos Award winners {{UK-philosopher-stub