Patrick Colonel Suppes (b. 1922, Tulsa, OK) is an American philosopher who has made significant contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology, and educational technology. Suppes initially graduated in meteorology from the University of Chicago, and was stationed at the Solomon Islands during WWII. After the war, he received a PhD degree from Columbia University, where he was a student of Ernest Nagel. In 1952 he went to Stanford University, and from 1959 to 1992 he was the director of the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences (IMSSS). He is now the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford. 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including the formal sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. ... Various meters Measurement is the estimation or determination of extent, dimension or capacity, usually in relation to some standard or unit of measurement. ... Fig. ... Decision theory is an interdisciplinary area of study, related to and of interest to practitioners in mathematics, statistics, economics, philosophy, management and psychology. ... Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ... Educational technology is the use of technology in education to improve learning and teaching. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901, Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire -- September 22, 1985, New York City) was among the most important philosophers of science of his time. ... Stanford redirects here. ...

In the 1960s, Suppes and Richard C. Atkinson (the future president of the University of California) conducted experiments in using computers to teach math and reading to schoolchildren in the Palo Alto area. Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth and Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC, now named Pearson Education Technologies) is an indirect descendant of those early experiments. Richard C. Atkinson (born March 1929) served as the president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Location of Palo Alto within Santa Clara County, California. ... The Education Program for Gifted Youth, hosted at Stanford University, is a gifted education program with distance and summer courses for students of all ages. ...

In 1965 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on mathematical psychology. In 1990, Suppes was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Science by President George H. W. Bush. He is the laureate of the 2003 Lakatos Award for his contributions to the philosophy of science. National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science, also called the Presidential Medal of Science, is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social... The Lakatos Award is given annually for a widely interpreted outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, in the form of a book published in English during the previous six years. ...

See also

• Richard C. Atkinson
• Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)

Richard C. Atkinson (born March 1929) served as the president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003. ... Nancy Cartwright (born 1943) is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics. ...

Books by Suppes

• 1972 (1960). Axiomatic Set Theory. Dover. Spanish translation by H. A. Castillo, Teoria Axiomatica de Conjuntos.
• 1984. Probabilistic Metaphysics, Blackwell Pub; Reprint edition (October 1986)
• 1994. Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher, P. Humphreys, ed. Synthese Library (Springer-Verlag).
  • Vol. 1: Probability and Probabilistic Causality.
  • Vol. 2: Philosophy of Physics, Theory Structure and Measurement, and Action Theory.
• 1999 (1957). Introduction to Logic. Dover. Spanish translation by G. A. Carrasco, Introduccion a la logica simbolica. Chinese translation by Fu-Tseng Liu.
• 2001. Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures. CSLI (distributed by the University of Chicago Press).
• 2002 (1964) (with Shirley Hill). A First Course in Mathematical Logic. Dover. Spanish translation.
• 2007 (1972) (with R. Duncan Luce, David Krantz, and Amos Tversky). Foundations of Measurement, Vols. 1-3. Dover.

R. Duncan Luce is the Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. ... Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. ...

External links

• Patrick Suppes autobiography and complete bibliography.
• National Medal of Science page.
• Patrick Suppes' papers, in pdf.