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Ernest Nagel was born on Nov. 16, 1901in Nové Město, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He came to the Us at 10 years of age
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In 1923 he received a Bachelor of Science from the College of the City of New York, in 1925 a Master's Degree in philosophy from Columbia University, and in 1931, a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia.
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"Formerly an exponent of logical realism, Nagel later abandoned a realistic ontology for an empirical and theoretical philosophy of science. His book An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (1934) richly illustrates the function of logical principles in scientific method in the natural and social sciences and in law and history"
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On January 20, 1935, he married Edith Alexandria Haggstrom, and they had two sons.
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He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954, and to the American Philosophical Society in 1962. In 1977 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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" In Logic Without Metaphysics (1957) he defended a naturalistic interpretation of logic, denying the ontological necessity of logico-mathematical principles and arguing that they must be understood according to their function in specific inquiries. The Structure of Science (1961) analyzes the nature of explanation, the logic of scientific inquiry, and the logical structure of the organization of scientific knowledge."
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He continued he's teaching in his later years. He became a University Professor Emeritus in 1970 and stayed a special lecturer at Columbia until 1973.
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Ernest Nagel died on September 20, 1985 in New York City, NY. He was 83 years old.
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Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Ernest Nagel.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 12 Nov. 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Nagel. “Read ‘Biographical Memoirs: V.65’ at NAP.edu.” National Academies Press: OpenBook, www.nap.edu/read/4548/chapter/14.
