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Ernest Nagel Birth/Early Childhood
Ernest Nagel was born Nov 16, 1901 in Nové Město, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. In 1911 his family emigrated to the U.S. he then got his citizenship 1919. -
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method.
Ernest Nagel published a book in association with Morris Cohen called "An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method" which was one of the first and most successful textbooks in the field of Scientific Logic. During this time Nagel was a trained logician and wrote multiple other textbooks including "Principles of the Theory of Probability" and "The Logic of Measurement" -
The Cognitive Status of Theories
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWAXtQK6zE] This is a lecture given by Ernest Nagel at UC Berkeley discussing the cognitive status of scientific theories and related issues to scientific realism and instrumentalism. -
The Structure of Science
This was Ernest nagel's most popular work. This book discusses the nature of scientific inquiry with the reference to both the natural sciences and the social sciences. The book tried to show that the same logic of scientific explanation was valid in all sciences. and that social sciences could be reduced to physical science as well. He characterized the disagreements between the descriptive, the realest, and the instrumentalist views. Calling it a conflict over "preferred modes of speech." -
Ernest Nagel Death
Ernest Nagel died of pneumonia in New York City, New York.
