Michael Friedman |
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| Born | (1947-04-02)April 2, 1947
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| Died | March 24, 2025(2025-03-24) (aged 77)
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| Spouse | Graciela De Pierris |
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| Awards | Matchette Prize, Lakatos Award, Humboldt Research Award |
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| Alma mater | Queens College, City University of New York
Princeton University (PhD) |
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| Thesis | Foundations of Space-Time Theories (1972) |
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| Influences | Immanuel Kant, Carl Gustav Hempel, Hans Reichenbach, Clark Glymour, Jürgen Habermas |
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| Era | Modern philosophy |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
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| School or tradition | Analytic philosophy |
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| Institutions | Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University, UC Berkeley, University of Western Ontario, University of Konstanz |
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| Notable students | Andrew Janiak, Eric Winsberg |
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| Main interests | Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of philosophy, Kantianism |
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| Notable works | Foundations of Space-Time Theories, Kant and the Exact Sciences, "A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger", Dynamics of Reason |
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| Notable ideas | Dynamics of reason, retrospective communicative rationality, relativized (constitutive) a priori principles as paradigms |
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| Website | philosophy.stanford.edu/people/michael-friedman |
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Michael Friedman (April 2, 1947 – March 24, 2025) was an American philosopher who was Emeritus Patrick Suppes Professor of Philosophy of Science and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford University. Friedman was best known for his work in the philosophy of science, especially on scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics, and for his historical work on Immanuel Kant. Friedman has done historical work on figures in continental philosophy such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. He also served as the co-director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford University.