Joseph D. Sneed (September 23, 1938 – February 7, 2020) was an American physicist, and philosopher at the Colorado School of Mines.
[1] He was born in Durant, OK. His father, Dabney W. Sneed, was a civil servant with the Postal Service and later an architect for the Federal Housing Administration.
His mother, Sallabelle Atkison Sneed, was a homemaker and elementary school teacher.
His view of the nature of philosophy was shaped at Stanford by Donald Davidson.
[2] With his book The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics, published in 1971, and other contributions to the philosophy of science Sneed founded the structural theory of the empirical sciences.