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Ernest Nagel

By ShadasiaMcAdoo

  • The Beginning

    Ernest Nagel was born on the 16th of November 1901 in Nove Mesto, Bohemia. Mr. Nagel came from an immigrant family and was one of two children to parents Isadore Nagel and Frida Weiss Nagel. Ernest became a citizen of the United States of America in 1919. He then received his bachelor of science degree in social studies in 1923 from the City College of New York. He then went on to pursue his master's as well as his doctorate in philosophy from the Columbia University.

  • The Middle

    He married Edith Alexandria Haggstrom on January 20th, 1935 and they had two sons named Alexander Joseph; who is the professor of mathematics and Sidney Robert; who is the professor of physics at the University of Chicago.

  • The Middle (Part 2)

    In 1955, Ernest became the first John Dewey Professor of Philosophy afterwards he then was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1977. Furthermore, Nagel's work was mostly related to the philosophy of mathematical fields. Ernest was the most well known philosopher of science between the 1930s to the 1960s.

  • The End

    Nagel published a book titled "The Structure of Science" in 1961, which became the most famous and widely read book. Between the years of 1939 and 1946 Ernest edited the "Journal of Philosophy and the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Ernest Nagel then passed away on the 20th of September 1985 in New York. He was then buried in South Wardsboro, Vermont.