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Birth
Ernest Nagel was born over one hundred years ago in Nové Mesto, Bohemia which is now Czechoslovakia.
SUPPES, PATRICK. “BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR: ERNEST NAGEL: NOVEMBER 16, 1901—SEPTEMBER 20, 1985.” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 109, no. 8/9, 2012, pp. 470–78, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43820721. Accessed 11 Apr. 2022. -
The Big Move
Nagel and his family moved to New York City when he was just 10 years old. -
Citizenship
Nagel becomes a United States Citizen at the age of 18 years old. -
Bachelor of Science
Nagel earned his Bachelor's degree in Science from the College of the City of New York. -
Master's Degree
Nagel received his Master's Degree in philosophy from Columbia University. -
Ph.D.
Nagel also received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1931. His dissertation was completed on the topic of the theory of measurement. -
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Columbia University
Nearly half of Ernest Nagel's life was spent at Columbia where he studied and taught. He began as a professor of philosophy in 1930 and became a full-time professor 16 years later.
Nagel, Ernest. “Science and Semantic Realism.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 17, no. 2, 1950, pp. 174–81, http://www.jstor.org/stable/184917. Accessed 11 Apr. 2022. -
Nagel on the map
In 1934, Nagel, along with teacher Morris R. Cohen, write "An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method". It is considered one of the greatest works on the scientific method and becomes a common textbook for academia. -
Marriage
1935: Ernest Nagel and Edith Haggstrom marry and have two children. -
He Writes Again
"Logic without Metaphysics" by Ernest Nagel is published. -
Author
In 1961, Nagel writes "The Structure of Science" in which he discusses the nature of the scientific inquiry. -
Death
Ernest Nagel, the renowned scientific philosopher, passes away on September 20, 1985.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Ernest Nagel". Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Nagel. Accessed 10 April 2022.