Frederick Suppe (; born 1940 in
Los Angeles, California) is a
professor Emeritus of
philosophy
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at the
University of Maryland. He has prominent work in the
philosophy of science including much work with the
semantic view of theories The semantic view of theories is a position in the philosophy of science that holds that a scientific theory can be identified with a collection of models. The semantic view of theories was originally proposed by Patrick Suppes in “A Comparison ...
.
Biography
Suppe received his Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan and has research interests in the philosophy of science,
epistemology and
metaphysics,
philosophical theology
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and
philosophy of gender
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.
In 2000 he moved to
Texas Tech University where he became chair of the philosophy department. In 2002 he moved to the department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures where he was chair from 2002 to 2010. He is currently Professor of Classics, stationed at the
Texas Tech Center
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in
Seville, Spain, which he helped develop.
His works on the semantic view of theories include Suppe, Frederick, ed. (1974), ''The Structure of Scientific Theories'' and (1989), ''The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism''.
[Suppe, Frederick. (1989), ''The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.]
See also
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American philosophy
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*
List of American philosophers
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Scientific structuralism
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Living people
1940 births
20th-century American philosophers
Christian philosophers
Philosophers of science
University of Michigan alumni
Texas Tech University faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
People from Los Angeles
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