Böcker av Patrick Suppes

This volume of essays is dedicated to the late Wilbur Knorr, a historian of science. Inspired by Knorr's work, the essays concentrate on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences and their medieval and modern traditions.

Patrick Suppes, one of the world's foremost philosophers in the area of probability, has produced a masterly study, which will interest philosophers and mathematicians alike. The Foundations of Probability with Applications is divided into three parts addressing axiomatic foundations of probability, probabilistic causality and quantum mechanics, and probabilistic theories of learning.

All of the papers except those of Griinbaum, Fine, the second paper of Friedman, and the paper of Adams appeared in a special double issue of Synthese (24 (1972), Nos. I am pleased to have been able to add the four additional papers mentioned in making the special issue a volume in the Synthese Library.