---
title: "Christopher Timpson"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Christopher Timpson"
aliases: ["Christopher Gordon Timpson"]
first_seen: "2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["quantum information","ontological vs methodological distinction","foundations of quantum mechanics","Sebastian De Haro","black hole information paradox"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


British philosopher of physics (Oxford), author of *Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics* (Oxford University Press, 2013), whose 2004 DPhil thesis of the same title is the documented precursor to that book. He matters to this vault as the source of the distinction — a slogan built on "information" licenses a *methodological* stance, not an *ontological* one — that other authors invoke or depart from when they reach for information-centric language in physics: [[entity-sebastian-de-haro|Sebastian De Haro]] and Aude Corbeel's 2026 review follows Timpson's account directly when disclaiming their own title slogan, while D'Ariano and Faggin's "Quantum-Information Panpsychism" takes the ontological branch Timpson's distinction explicitly withholds.

## References
- [[claim-timpson-2004-quantum-information-slogan-is-methodological-not-ontological]] — his 2004 thesis stated directly, read at primary
- [[claim-quantum-information-panpsychism-is-dariano-and-faggins-own-term]] — the contrasting ontological position his distinction cuts against

## Log
- 2026-10-22: Page created at promotion of the Corbeel & De Haro corroboration-check capture — the first vault entity page for Timpson, whose single-authored thesis gives him separate standing beyond any one co-authorship.