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Representation & Invariance of Scientific Structures: Problems of Representation and Invariance
Author(s): Patrick Suppes (Author)
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: 17 Jan. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 1575863332
- ISBN-13: 9781575863337
Book Description
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 – distinguished philosopher Patrick Suppes’s groundbreaking and essential text – 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.
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About the Author
Patrick Suppes is the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Stanford University.
