In Memoriam: Patrick Suppes (1922-2014)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 17--UPDATED

An important contributor to the philosophy of science and decision theory, he spent his entire academic career (from 1950 onwards) at Stanford University, where he was emeritus.  He was one of a small handful of philosophers (along with, e.g., Allan Gibbard and Brian Skyrms) elected both to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.  I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.

UPDATE:  Michael Weisberg (Penn), who took his PhD at Stanford, writes:

There are some amazing photos of Pat on the corpus website. I especially like the ones showing his pioneering work in computer-aided instruction (in the 1960s!!). These two are my favorite: 

http://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/Professional%20Photos/album/1960s/slides/6.html

http://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/Professional%20Photos/album/1960s/slides/14.html

(The second photo shows one of the first dozen or so PDB-1's that were produced, Pat couldn't remember exactly which one it was, maybe #6 or #7 he thought.)

ANOTHER:  A memorial notice by Stanford philosopher Michael Friedman.

AND FINALLY The New York Times.

MORE:  From a San Francisco paper.  (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)

ANOTHER:  By Stanford PhD Alistair Isaac (Edinburgh).