Philosopher
Ernest Nagel
Overview
Ernest Nagel (; German: [ˈnaːɡl̩]; 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. His 1961 book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the logic of scientific explanation.
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Philosophers who discussed Ernest Nagel
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Patrick Suppes
- Brand Blanshard
- Rudolf Carnap
- Arthur Pap
- Morris Raphael Cohen
- John L. Pollock
- Isaac Levi
Ideas Ernest Nagel discusses
- Journal of Symbolic Logic
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Atheism
- Hans Reichenbach
- Analytic philosophy
- John Dewey
- Internet Archive
- Logical positivism
- Geometry
- Mathematical logic
- Paul Edwards (philosopher)
- Probability
- Quantum mechanics
- Jews
- Social science
- American Philosophical Society
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Philosophy of science
- Natural science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Inductive reasoning
- Patrick Suppes
- Reductionism
- Ontological commitment
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.