The twenty-three papers collected in tbis volume represent an important part of my published work up to the date of this volume. I have not arranged the paper chronologically, but under four main headings. Part I contains five papers on methodology concerned with models and measurement in the sciences. This part also contains the first paper I published, 'A Set of Independent Axioms for Extensive Quantities', in Portugaliae Mathematica in 1951. Part 11 also is concerned with methodology and ineludes six papers on probability and utility. It is not always easy to separate papers on probability and utility from papers on measurement, because of the elose connection between the two subjects, but Artieles 6 and 8, even though they have elose relations to measurement, seem more properly to belong in Part 11, because they are concerned with substantive questions about probability and utility. The last two parts are concerned with the foundations of physics and the foundations of psychology. I have used the term foundations rather than philosophy, because the papers are mainly concerned with specific axiomatic formulations for particular parts of physics or of psychology, and it seems to me that the termfoundations more appropriately describes such constructive axiomatic ventures. Part 111 contains four papers on the foundations of physics. The first paper deals with foundations of special relativity and the last three with the role ofprobability in quantum mechanics.

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Book Title: Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers from 1951 to 1969
Authors: Patrick Suppes
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3173-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1969
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0020-9Published: 31 July 1969
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8320-3Published: 30 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3173-7Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 475
Topics: Philosophy of Science

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Methodology: Models and Measurement

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Methodology: Probability and Utility

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Foundations of Physics

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Foundations of Psychology

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