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Born in Nové Mesto, Bohemia.
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Ernest Nagel comes to the United States.
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Ernest Nagel becomes a U.S. citizen.
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Earnest Nagel receives a Bachelor of Science from the College of the City of New York.
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Earnest Nagle receives a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Columbia University.
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Nagle receives Ph. D in philosophy from Columbia University.
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Earnest Nagle joins the faculty of philosophy, He served as an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and the Journal of Symbolic logic.
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Nagel collaborated with Morris Cohen his teacher on An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method, it became one of the first and most successful textbooks of scientific method.
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Nagel married Edith Haggstrom.
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Nagel published an essay “Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe” this introduced the work of European philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap to Americans
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Nagel published Logic without Metaphysics.
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Nagel published The Structure of Science, considered one of the best works on philosophy of science. In this book he analyzes the nature of explanation, the logic of scientific inquiry, and the logical structure of the organization of scientific knowledge.
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Nagel achieves University Professor at Columbia University.
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Nagel achieves Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.
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Was the last year Nagel did special lectures at Columbia.
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Nagel dies of pneumonia at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
