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Born in Nove Mesto, Bohemia. His parents were Isadore Nagel and Frida Weiss Nagel. They arrived in America in 1911. Nagel became a citizen in 1919 . Studied in New York and received his Bachelors in social studies. Received his masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Columbia University in 1925 and 1931. He became a teacher, got married in 1935 to physicist Edith Haggstrom and taught at Rockefeller University. Retired in 1970 and continued to conduct seminars until his death in 1985. -
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Coauthored a textbook with Cohen known as "An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method" (Cohen and Nagel 1934). "Principles of the Theory of Probability," which contributed to the International Encyclopedia of unified Science. "Sovereign Reason and Logic without Metaphysics" (Nagel 1954 and 1956). "The Structure of Science" (Nagel 1961)."Teleology Revisited" (Nagel 1979). -
Educational video of his view on religion
lcuddy12. (2020, March 29). Does god exist by Nagel Lecture (Phil 101). YouTube. Retrieved January 9, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RoWF6TD3Sk -
References
Ernest Nagel - Stanford | collected works of Patrick Suppes. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2022, from https://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj7316/f/ernest_nagel_biographical_article_407.pdf Encyclopedia.com. (2022, January 9). ." Scribner
Encyclopedia of American lives, thematic series: The 1960s. . encyclopedia.com. 28 Dec. 2021 . Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 9, 2022, from https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/philosophy-biographies/ernest-nagel -
More references
Ernest Nagel. Ernest Nagel - New World Encyclopedia. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2022, from https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ernest_Nagel#The_Structure_of_Science
Read "Biographical memoirs: Volume 65" at nap.edu. National Academies Press: OpenBook. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2022, from https://www.nap.edu/read/4548/chapter/14#265