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Birth and Death
Ernest Nagel was born on November 16 1901 in Nové Mĕsto, Prague. He died on September 22 1985 in New York City at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from pneumonia. -
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method
Collaborating with Morris Cohen, they published An Introductions to Logic and Scientific Method. This became one of the first textbook of the scientific method. In this book, they attempt to develop the principles of logic and the scientific method through hypothesizing and experimentation. An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. Nature 135, 51 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135051c0 -
Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy of Europe
Spending a year in Europe, he published an essay in the Philosophy of Journal introducing the work of European philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap. Ernest Nagel (2017). New World Encyclopedia. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ernest_Nagel -
Sovereign Reason
Along with the publication of Logic without Metaphysics, consists of his previously published article connecting logical thought and the philosophy of science. Ernest Nagel (2017). New World Encyclopedia. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ernest_Nagel -
Logic without Metaphysics
Collections of articles in which Nagel defends a "naturalistic interpretation of logic" arguing logical empiricism in the pursuit of science. -
Godel's Proof
With James R. Newman, published Godel's incompleteness theorems which attempts to define mathematical logic in connection with the natural world. Ernest Nagel (2017). New World Encyclopedia. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ernest_Nagel -
The Structure of Science
Nagel's most prominent work was published in 1961. In the Structure of Science he examines a logical structure of scientific concepts. He describes an analysis of explanation throughout the book comparing logic among varying sciences claiming that it could be applied throughout, but is rather a "preferred method of speech." Madden, Edward H. “Ernest Nagel's The Structure of Science.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 30, no. 1, 1963, pp. 64–70. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/186622.