death_date death_place influenced birth_place era school_tradition influences awards main_interests notable_ideas birth_date article_title name region
17 november 2014 stanford , california wolfgang loftus john l. pollock balzer joseph d. sneed carlos ulises moulines elizabeth tulsa , oklahoma 20th-century philosophy analytic aristotle hume ernest nagel tarski james national medal of science -lrb- 1990 -rrb- philosophy neuroscience foundations of probability and measurement theories of learning of science foundations of quantum mechanics foundations of theory structures as set-theoretic predicates 17 march 1922 patrick suppes
 patrick suppes western philosophy
patrick suppes

patrick colonel suppes -lrb- ; march 17 , 1922 -- november 17 , 2014 -rrb- was an american philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science , the theory of measurement , the foundations of quantum mechanics , decision theory , psychology and educational technology .
he was the lucie stern professor of philosophy emeritus at stanford university and until january 2010 was the director of the education program for gifted youth also at stanford .
