Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience
Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes
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Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience
Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Table of Contents
Contributors
Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience: Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes
Foreword by Helen E. Longino
An Overview: Suppes as Scientific Philosopher
Michael Friedman
I Foundations of Mathematics
1 What Numbers Are
Jens Erik Fenstad
2 The “Axiom” of Choice is not an Axiom of Choice
Jaako Hintakka
3 Invariant Maximality and Incompleteness
Harvey M. Friedman
II Philosophy of Science
4 The Structure, the Whole Structure, but not Nothing but the Structure
Thomas Ryckman
5 Models of Data and Inverse Methods
Paul Humphreys
6 Representational Measurement in Economics
Adolfo García de la Sienra
7 Imprecise Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics
Stephan Hartmann
III Mathematical Representation (across disciplines)
8 The Incompleteness Of Hölder’s Theorem During Most of The 20th Century
R. Duncan Luce
9 The Economic System as Trade in Information
Kenneth J. Arrow
10 On a Class of Meaningful Permutable Laws
Jean-Claude Falmange
Belief as Qualitative Probability
Hannes Leitgeb
IV Language, Mind, and Learning Theory
12 Learning to Signal with Two Kinds of Trial and Error
Brian Skyrms
13 From Rousseau to Suppes: On Diaries and Probabilistic Grammars
Willem J. M. Levelt
14 Suppes and Husserl
Dafinn Føllesdal
15 Mirroring and Moral Psychology
Russell Hardin
V Neuroscience
16 Response Selection Using Neural Phase Oscillators
José Acacio de Barros and Gary Oas
17 Using the Scalp Electric Field to Recognize Brainwaves
Claudio G. Carvalhaes
18 Similarity Trees Derived from Pairwise Classifications
Marcos Perreau-Guimaraes
19 Representation, Isomorphism and Invariance in the Study of Language and the Brain
Colleen E. Crangle
IV Science in Practice
20 The Psychiatrist’s Dilemmas
Anne Fagot-Largeault
21 Illusions of Memory
Elizabeth F. Loftus
22 EBP: Where Rigor Matters
Nancy Cartwright and Alexandre Marcellesi
V Commentaries
23 Commentaries
Patrick Suppes
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