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Early Life and Undergraduate Education
Ernest Nagel was born in 1901 in Prague, Austria-Hungary, present-day Czech Republic. His family moved to the United States when he was a child, arriving in New York. Nagel went to the City College of New York when he became of age where he would graduate with a Bachelors of Science degree in 1923 (New World Encyclopedia). -
Doctorates Degree
Nagel would move on from his Bachelors Degree to pursue a Doctorate. He attended Columbia university where he would complete his program in 1930. A year later Nagel would be admitted as a faculty member of the college where he would spend most of his professional life as a professor of philosophy of science (New World Encyclopedia. -
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method
Nagel's first publication was a collaboration with Morris R. Cohen, a teacher of his from undergraduate days (New World Encyclopedia), titled An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. The book, "richly illustrates the function of logical principles in scientific method in the natural and social sciences and in law and history" (Britannica). -
Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
Regarded by many prominent figures in his field of study, Ernest Nagel's magnum opus is Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation. First published in 1961, it is a "consolidation of the contrasting insights of two rival traditions of scientific philosophy, logical positivism and pragmatism" (Ableson). The book attempts to meld the differing process of Social Sciences as well as Natural Sciences.
