Patrick Suppes - Books by Suppes

Philosopher and educator, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. After serving in the US Army Reserves (1942–6) and earning a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University (1950), he joined the Stanford University faculty. In 1959 he became director of Stanford's Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences. As president of the American Educational Research Association (1973–4), he was a pioneer in computer-assisted instruction and contributed to logic and probability theory.

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).

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.

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. He is the laureate of the 2003 Lakatos Award for his contributions to the philosophy of science.

Books by Suppes

1972 (1960). Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher, P. CSLI (distributed by the University of Chicago Press).