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Birth
Born in Nové Mesto, Bohemia. -
Move to United States
Ernest Nagel comes to the United States. -
U.S Citizen
Ernest Nagel becomes a U.S. citizen. -
Bachelor of Science
Earnest Nagel receives a Bachelor of Science from the College of the City of New York. -
Master's Degree
Earnest Nagle receives a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Columbia University. -
Ph. D
Nagle receives Ph. D in philosophy from Columbia University. -
Work for Columbia
Earnest Nagle joins the faculty of philosophy, He served as an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and the Journal of Symbolic logic. -
Nagel and Morris Cohen
Nagel collaborated with Morris Cohen his teacher on An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method, it became one of the first and most successful textbooks of scientific method. -
Married
Nagel married Edith Haggstrom. -
Introducing European Philosophers
Nagel published an essay “Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe” this introduced the work of European philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap to Americans -
Logic without Metaphysics
Nagel published Logic without Metaphysics. -
The Structure of Science
Nagel published The Structure of Science, considered one of the best works on philosophy of science. In this book he analyzes the nature of explanation, the logic of scientific inquiry, and the logical structure of the organization of scientific knowledge. -
University Professor
Nagel achieves University Professor at Columbia University. -
Professor Emeritus
Nagel achieves Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. -
The End of Lectures
Was the last year Nagel did special lectures at Columbia. -
Death of Nagel
Nagel dies of pneumonia at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
