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Ernest Nagel was born on 16 November, 1901 in Vágújhely, Austria-Hungary, is an American philosopher. Discover Ernest Nagel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
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Born 16 November, 1901
Birthday 16 November
Birthplace Vágújhely, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 20 September, 1985
Died Place New York, US
Nationality Hungary

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1901

Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science.

Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement.

1919

He emigrated to the United States at the age of 10 and became a U.S. citizen in 1919.

1923

He received a BSc from the City College of New York in 1923, and earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1931, with a dissertation on the concept of measurement.

1934

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.

Nagel wrote An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method with Morris Raphael Cohen, his CCNY teacher in 1934.

1939

He edited the Journal of Philosophy (1939–1956) and the Journal of Symbolic Logic (1940-1946).

1955

He became the first John Dewey Professor of Philosophy there in 1955.

1958

In 1958, he published with James R. Newman Gödel's proof, a short book explicating Gödel's incompleteness theorems to those not well trained in mathematical logic.

1961

His 1961 book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the logic of scientific explanation.

Nagel was born in Nové Mesto nad Váhom (now in Slovakia, then Vágújhely and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) to Jewish parents.

His mother, Frida Weiss, was from the nearby town of Vrbové (or Verbo).

His book The Structure of Science (1961) practically inaugurated the field of analytic philosophy of science.

He expounded the different kinds of explanation in different fields, and was sceptical about attempts to unify the nature of scientific laws or explanations.

He was the first to propose that by positing analytic equivalencies (or "bridge laws") between the terms of different sciences, one could eliminate all ontological commitments except those required by the most basic science.

He also upheld the view that social sciences are scientific, and should adopt the same standards as natural sciences.

1962

Nagel was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society (1962) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1981).

He died in New York.

He had two sons, Alexander Nagel (professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin) and Sidney Nagel (professor of physics at the University of Chicago).

Nagel's doctoral students include Morton White, Patrick Suppes, Henry Kyburg, Isaac Levi, and Kenneth Schaffner.

1966

Except for one year (1966-1967) at Rockefeller University, Nagel spent his entire academic career at Columbia.

1967

And then University Professor from 1967 until his retirement in 1970, after which he continued to teach.

1969

A festschrift, Philosophy, Science and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel, was published in 1969.

1976

As a public intellectual, he supported a skeptical approach to claims of the paranormal, becoming one of the first sponsors and fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 1976, along with 24 other notable philosophers like W. V. Quine.

The committee posthumously inducted him into their "Pantheon of Skeptics" in recognition of Nagel's contributions to the cause of scientific skepticism.

Nagel was an atheist.

1977

In 1977, he was one of the few philosophers elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

His work concerned the philosophy of mathematical fields such as geometry and probability, quantum mechanics, and the status of reductive and inductive theories of science.