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Nagel was born in Nov of 1901 in Nove Mesto, Bohemia.
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In 1930 Nagel earned his Doctorate Degree from Columbia University, which is where he would go on to teach Philosophy later on in his career.
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In 1934 Nagel wrote the first and most successful textbooks in the field with Cohen.
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In 1954, Nagel in his presidential at the annual Eastern Division American Philosophical Association, he stated that naturalism is a generalized account of the cosmic scene and a man's place in it, as well as a logic of inquiry.
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In 1958, Nagel wrote a book talking about Godel's incompleteness of his theorems to those not trained in mathematical logic with James R. Newman.
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In 1961, Nagel wrote the book The Structure of Science which inaugurated the field of analytic philosophy of science, he created bridge laws between different sciences.
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”Philosophy is in general not a primary inquiry into the nature of things. It is a reflection on the conclusion of those inquiries that may sometimes terminate, as it did in the case of Spinoza, in a clarified vision of man's place in the scheme of things.” (Ernest Nagel, Acceptance Speech for Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler Medal in Gold, 1980)
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Nagel died in September 1985 in New York he was survived by his two sons.
