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Ernest Nagel is born on November 16, 1901 in in Nové Mĕsto, Prague. -
Ernest went to university in America at the University of Columbia and earned at doctorate in 1930. He then joined the faculty there.
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Nagel studied logical realism. He would later go on to think about abstract and functional parts of science. He then would move onto naturalism. With the naturalism, he would develop, that the social and behavioral sciences could be translated into the language of the physical sciences.
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Ernest collaborated with Morris Cohen on a textbook called An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method. This book became one of the most used textbooks on the scientific method.
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Ernest publishes "Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe''.
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Ernest developed a model of reduction stating that a reduction is effected when a experimental laws of the secondary science are shown to be the logical consequences of the theoretical assumptions of the primary science". (Nagel 1961: 352)
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Ernest would be a presidential speaker and define naturalism. He would go onto define it as, "a generalized account of the cosmic scheme and of man's place in it, as well as a logic of inquiry."
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Published The Structure of Science. This examined the logical concept of sciences. It was also considered one of the most important pieces to the philosophy of science.
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Passed away from pneumonia in New York.
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"Ernest Nagel." New World Encyclopedia, . 17 Aug 2017, 14:17 UTC. 6 Apr 2023, 22:24 https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Ernest_Nagel&oldid=1006363
van Riel, Raphael, and Robert Van Gulick. “Scientific Reduction.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 27 Feb. 2019, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reduction/.