Ernest Nagel
Ernest Nagel | |
|---|---|
20th-century philosophy | |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Dewey |
| Doctoral students | Morton White Patrick Suppes Jerome Rothenberg Henry E. Kyburg Jr. |
Main interests | Philosophy of science |
Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American
Life and career
Nagel was born in
He emigrated to the United States at the age of 10 and became a U.S. citizen in 1919. He received a BSc from the City College of New York in 1923, and earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1931,[4] with a dissertation on the concept of measurement.
Through the award of a Guggeheim Fellowship he was able to spend a year in Europe (from August 1934 to July 1935) to learn about the new trends in philosophy on the continent.[5]
Except for one year (1966-1967) at
His work concerned the philosophy of mathematical fields such as
Nagel wrote An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method with
As a public intellectual, he supported a skeptical approach to claims of the
Nagel was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society (1962)[11] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1981).[12]
He died in
Nagel's doctoral students include
A festschrift, Philosophy, Science and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel, was published in 1969.[13]
Select works
- On The Logic of Measurement (1930)[14]
- An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (with M. R. Cohen, 1934)
- "The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry" (1939)[15]
- Principles of the Theory of Probability (1939)
- "The Meaning of Reduction in the Natural Sciences" (1949)[16]
- Sovereign Reason (1954)
- Logic without Metaphysics (1957)
- Nagel, Ernest; Newman, James R. (1958). Gödel's Proof. New York: New York University Press – via Internet Archive.
- The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (1961, second ed. 1979)
- Observation and Theory in Science (with others, 1971)
- Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science (1979)
References
- ^ a b Suppes, Patrick (1999). Biographical memoir of Ernest Nagel. In American National Biography (Vol. 16, pp. 216-218). New York: Oxford University Press. [Author eprint]
- ^ Suppes, Patrick (1994). "Ernest Nagel" (PDF). Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ Nagel, Y. (2022). "Ernest Nagel: A Biography." In: Neuber, M., Tuboly, A.T. (eds) Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 53. Springer, Cham.
- ^ a b Ernest Nagel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ISBN 978-3-030-81010-8.
- ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 9 December 1955 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
- ^ "The Pantheon of Skeptics". CSI. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ Kurtz, Paul (2001). "Skeptical Inquirer: W.V. Quine (1908-2000)". No. March/April 2001. p. 8.
- ISSN 0194-6730.
- ^ Nagel, Ernest, “A Defense of Atheism” In: Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap, eds., A Modern Introduction to Philosophy, revised edition, The Free Press, MacMillan, New York, 1967.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- ^ "Ernest Nagel". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- ISSN 0021-1753.
- JSTOR 2016000.
- S2CID 120668376.
- JSTOR 43820725.
Further reading
- Suppes, P. (2006). Ernest Nagel.* In S. Sarkar & Pfeifer, J. (Eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia (N-Z Indexed., Vol. 2, pp. 491–496). New York: Routledge. [Archived *author eprint]