Frederick Suppe (; born 1940 in

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) is a

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of philosophy at the

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. He has prominent work in the

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ult ...

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

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and has research interests in the philosophy of science,

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epis ...

and

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

, philosophical theology and philosophy of gender. In 2000 he moved to

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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 in

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, 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.

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