Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures (Volume 130) (Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Suppes, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575863332 ISBN 13: 9781575863337

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2001

Synopsis

A fundamental reason for using formal methods in the philosophy of science is the desirability of having a fixed frame of reference that may be used to organize the variety of doctrines at hand. This book—Patrick Suppes's major work, and the result of several decades of research—examines how set-theoretical methods provide such a framework, covering issues of axiomatic method, representation, invariance, probability, mechanics, and language, including research on brain-wave representations of words and sentences. This is a groundbreaking, essential text from a distinguished philosopher.

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About the Author

Patrick Suppes (1922-2014) was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was the founder of the Computer Curriculum Corporation and the Suppes Brain Lab at Stanford, as well as the co-founder of the Institute for Mathematical Studies in Social Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575863332
• ISBN 13: 9781575863337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200