Simon Saunders

Simon Saunders
Professor Saunders at the 1st Ockham Debate, held at the T.S.Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, on 13 May 2013
Born	(1954-08-30) 30 August 1954 (age 69) London
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford Christ's College, Cambridge King's College, London
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Redhead
Doctoral students	include Sherrilyn Roush
Main interests	Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science

Simon Wolfe Saunders (born 30 August 1954) is a British philosopher of physics. He is noted for his work on quantum mechanics (particularly the many-worlds interpretation-the Everett interpretation), on identity and indiscernibility in physics, and on structural realism.

Saunders is currently Professor of Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Merton College, having moved to Oxford in 1996. He has previously held untenured posts at Harvard University (1990-1996), and temporary or visiting positions at Wolfson College, Oxford (1985–89), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989-1990), Harvard (2001), École Polytechnique (2004), University of British Columbia (2005), Perimeter Institute (2005), and IMéRA (L’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées) (2010). He is married to Kalypso Nicolaïdis; they have two children.