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Birth
Ernest Nagel was born in Czechoslovakia. His family immigrated to America when he was ten years old and became a US citizen is 1919. -
Education
He earned a bachelor of science degree from the City College of New York in 1923 followed by his doctorate from Columbia University in 1930. He did all of this while also teaching in the New York public school system. -
Textbook
Writing a textbook helps all future learners on the topic written about. This proved he was a pioneer in scientific logic.
Cohen, Morris,and Ernest Nagel. An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. 1934. -
Published Articles
Sovereign Reason and Logic without Metaphysics were two of his published books in which were wholly his articles from previous Columbia writings to display ideologies on philosophy. -
"One of the Best Works in the Philospohy in Science"
In this Piece he examines the logical structure of scientific concepts. He tried to show that the same way of thinking can be applied to all of science, that scientific philosophy concepts were all the same fundamentally.
Nagel, Ernest. The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation. 1961. -
Professor Nagel
After teaching for two years at other colleges, he became a University Professor at Columbia. He also served as an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and of the Journal of Symbolic Logic at Columbia. -
Death/ Legacy
Nagel died at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center because of pneumonia in New York City, New York. He died as a legend and one of the greatest philosophers of science. Nagel believed that logic and the scientific method was valid not only in science, but any topic. Through his published work and teaching at Columbia, he was able to express this ideology through many people and be well-known as a writer and philosopher.
Lecture at UC Berkley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWAXtQK6zE