Mathematician:Ernest Nagel

Mathematician

American philosopher of science, aligned with the logical positivist movement.

Nationality

American, of Slovakian (then Austria-Hungarian) origin

History

• Born: November 16, 1901 in Vágújhely, Austria-Hungary (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, in Slovakia)
• Died: September 20, 1985 in New York

Publications

• 1930: On the Logic of Measurement
• 1934: An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (with M. R. Cohen)
• 1939: The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry
• 1939: Principles of the Theory of Probability
• 1949: The Meaning of Reduction in the Natural Sciences
• 1954: Sovereign Reason
• 1957: Logic without Metaphysics
• 1958: Gödel's Proof (with J.R. Newman)
• 1961: The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
• 1971: Observation and Theory in Science (with others)
• 1979: Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science