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Sep 16, 2024 · 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; with Morris R. Cohen) richly illustrates the function of logical principles in scientific method in the natural and social sciences and in law ...
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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. His book The Structure of Science (1961) practically inaugurated the field of analytic philosophy of science .
Sep 22, 2021 · In the introduction, Nagel makes a distinction, broadly fashionable in the 1970s, between the old and the new philosophy of science. The former refers (mainly) to the logical empiricism of Carnap, while the latter centers on the views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, and many sociologists.
- Matthias Neuber, Adam Tamas Tuboly
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Sep 22, 2021 · Ernest Nagel felt that philosophy allowed him to study a wide range of subjects. His curiosity led him to explore many different fields. In addition to his work on logic, causality, and science, he was interested in and wrote on philosophy as applied to history, law, biology, and sociology.
- Yvonne Nagel
- 2022
- Pioneer in Scientific Logic
- Introduced Wittgenstein to Americans
- Proponent of Naturalism
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At City College, Nagel studied under Morris Cohen, who emphasized the role of reason in science. Nagel's association with Cohen led to the publication of An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method(1934), one of the first and most successful textbooks in the field. Cohen and Nagel claimed to have found "a place for the realistic formalism of Ari...
After a year of study in Europe, Nagel published a historic report, "Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe," in the Journal of Philosophy (1936). This essay introduced Americans to the philosophical work of the European philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap. Nagel sought to adapt the teachings of the logical posit...
Nagel expounded his naturalism in 1954, in his presidential address before the annual meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. He defined naturalism as "a generalized account of the cosmic scheme and of man's place in it, as well as a logic of inquiry." Naturalism, to Nagel, was "the executive and causal primacy of...
The New American Philosophers (1968) by Andrew J. Reck; Thinkers of the Twentieth Century (1987) and The Encyclopedia of Unbelief(1985). □
First systematic presentation of Ernest Nagel’s life and work. Groundbreaking collection to address twentieth-century history of philosophy of science. A collection of readable essays on Nagel's life and work, with a Nagel-interview and an unpublished talk of Nagel.
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Jan 1, 2022 · This chapter provides an overview of the life (Sect. 1.1) and philosophy (Sect. 1.2) of Ernest Nagel, as well as a summary of the chapters in this volume (Sect. 1.3).
