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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. -
Nagel and his family moved to New York City when he was just 10 years old. -
Nagel becomes a United States Citizen at the age of 18 years old. -
Nagel earned his Bachelor's degree in Science from the College of the City of New York.
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Nagel received his Master's Degree in philosophy from Columbia University.
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Nagel also received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1931. His dissertation was completed on the topic of the theory of measurement. -
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. -
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.
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1935: Ernest Nagel and Edith Haggstrom marry and have two children.
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"Logic without Metaphysics" by Ernest Nagel is published.
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In 1961, Nagel writes "The Structure of Science" in which he discusses the nature of the scientific inquiry. -
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.