Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes |
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| Editor:
| Crangle, Colleen E.
de la Sienra, Adolfo García
Longino, Helen E. |
| Series title: | Lecture Notes Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57586-745-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes contributed significantly both to the sciences and to their philosophies. The volume consists of papers by an international group of Suppes’ colleagues, collaborators, and students in many of the areas of his expertise, building on or adding to his insights. Michael Friedman offers an overview of Suppes’ accomplishments and of his unique perspective on the relation between science and philosophy. Paul...
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During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes contributed significantly both to the sciences and to their philosophies. The volume consists of papers by an international group of Suppes’ colleagues, collaborators, and students in many of the areas of his expertise, building on or adding to his insights. Michael Friedman offers an overview of Suppes’ accomplishments and of his unique perspective on the relation between science and philosophy. Paul Humphreys, Stephen Hartmann, and Tom Ryckman present essays in the philosophy of physics. Jens-Erik Fenstad, Harvey Friedman, and Jaako Hintikka consider problems in the foundations of mathematics, while the late Duncan Luce, Jean-Claude Falmagne, Brian Skyrms, and Hannes Leitgeb have contributed essays in theory of measurement, decision theory and probability. Foundations of economics and political theory are addressed by Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra, Russell Hardin, and Kenneth Arrow. Psychology, language, and philosophy of language are addressed by Elizabeth Loftus, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Willem Levelt, Dagfinn Føllesdal, and Marcos Perreau-Guimares and some of Suppes’ most recent research in neurobiology is addressed in essays by Colleen Crangle, Acadio de Barros and Claudio Carvalhes. Finally Nancy Cartwright and Alexandre Marcelles consider the alignment (or misalignment) of method and policy. Each of the essays is accompanied by a response from Suppes.