Patrick Suppes

Patrick Colonel Suppes (born March 17, 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. He is now the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford. Quotes Modern experimentation is often like driving an automobile. The details and theory of the instruments being used in the experiment are not known to the experimenter except in a very general way. (...) Experimenters are taught in an explicit way, often, how to write up reports of their experiments. But the tradition here is like sports reporting. Only the results of the experiment are reported in any serious detail. The procedures are not. Pragmatism in Physics, in P. Weingartner, G. Schurz & G. Dorn (Eds.), The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy. Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky (1998), p. 245, ISSN=1026-9347. Remember, Aristotle's De Anima is a seamless mixture of the science and philosophy of his time. We can aim at something similar, i.e. we should feel very comfortable using scientific results in philosophy. It does not mean philosophers must become scientists.https://suppescorpus.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj32751/files/media/file/interview_with_patrick_suppes_429.pdf External links Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:People from Oklahoma Category:Living people Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Stanford University faculty Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society