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Ernest Nagel "American Philosopher of Science"
Ernest Nagel was born November 16th 1901 in Nove Mesto, Bohemia and came to the United states when he was 10 years old. He became a citizen of the U.S. and received his higher education entirely in the United States. He received his Bachelors of Science degree from a College in the city of New York in 1923 and his Masters degree from Columbia University in 1925 Also his PhD in 1931. He spent most of his academic and life at the university of Columbia. He passed away September 20th 1985. -
Ernest Nagel Family
After his arrival in New York City in 1911, Nagel spent his entire
life there, although he and his family regularly spent the summer in Vermont for many years. On January 20, 1935, he married Edith Alexandria Haggstrom, and they had two sons, Alexander Joseph, who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, and Sidney Robert, who is a professor of physics at the
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Ernest Nagel "The Structure of Science"
The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation is a 1961 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Ernest Nagel, in which the author discusses the nature of scientific inquiry with reference to both natural science and social science. Here he devoted some patterns of scientific explanation with an analysis of four kinds of explanation offered in science: the deductive model, the probabilistic model, the functional model and the genetic model. -
Ernest Nagel had a very active career
During his long and active academic career Nagel received many
honors including honorary doctorates from a number of institutions. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1934-35 and 1950-51. He was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954, and to the American Philosophical Society in 1962. In 1977 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. -
Citations
Suppes, P. (2012). Ernest Nagel: November 16, 1901-September 20, 1985. The Journal of Philosophy, 109(8), 470–478. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil20121098/922