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Early life
Ernest Nagel was born on November 16, 1901 in bohemia. He moved to the United states when he was ten and became a citizen when in 1919. Nagel was a Philosophy major and recieved his bachelors in 1923, masters in 1925 and his PH.D in 1931 (Suppes 470). Suppes, Patrick. “Ernest Nagel: November 16, 1901-September 20, 1985.” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 109, no. 8, Journal of Philosophy Inc, 2012, pp. 470–78, https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil20121098/922. -
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Academic Years
Ernest Nagel was a faculty member at the University of Columbia. Nagel received many academic honors such as being a Guggenheim fellow from 1934-1935 and again in 1950-1951, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1954, and to the American Philosophical Society in 1962, and the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 (Suppes 470). -
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Philosophy Contributions
Ernest Nagel shaped the many intellectuals at the University of Columbia during his tenure there. He wrote publications for "The Parisian" and "The Nation". Nagel covered a wide swath of topics including but not limited to the following; "Causality, Explanations and Laws", "The Structure of Science", "Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation", "Foundations of Measurment", "Foundations of Geometry", and "Foundations of Physics" to name a few (Suppes 472) -
In death
Ernest Nagel passed away in September of 1985 and is survived by his two sons who were professors themselves in their professional careers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgouYLtcBgk