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This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel. Being one of the philosophical and institutional motors of the new discipline of philosophy of science, Ernest Nagel is still much underappreciated by scholars. By including a major intellectual biography of Nagel s life and works (written by his daughter Yvonne Nagel and narrated through the personal correspondence of Ernest Nagel), this book provides a unique opportunity for researchers. The Nagel-Hempel correspondence is published here for the very first time, enabling scholars to get a sense of how logical empiricism emigrated to the States, got acclimatized, and took over American philosophy in less than two decades.
List of contents
Chapter 1. In Focus: Ernest Nagel and American Philosophy between Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism (Roberto Gronda and Adam Tamas Tuboly).- Chapter 2. Ernest Nagel: A Biography Told Through Letters (Yvonne Nagel).- Chapter 3. Another Life in Letters: Ernest Nagel and Philosophy of Science in the Nagel-Hempel Correspondence (Roberto Gronda and Adam Tamas Tuboly).- Chapter 4. The Nagel-Hempel Correspondence (1935-1985) (Ernest Nagel and Carl G. Hempel).-Index of Names.
About the author
Roberto Gronda
is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa. He works on the history of American philosophy, especially on pragmatism, and the philosophy of scientific expertise. His latest works include
Dewey’s Philosophy of Science
(Springer, 2020) and
Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
(ed. with G. Marchetti and M. Janack, forthcoming, Routledge).
Adam Tamas Tuboly
is research group leader of the MTA Lendulet Values and Science Research Group at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest and senior research fellow at the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary. He works on the history of philosophy of science, especially on logical empiricism. His latest works include
Interpreting Carnap
(ed. with A. Richardson, CUP, 2024),
Otto Neurath in Britain
(with Ch. Burke, CUP 2025), and
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science
(ed. with F. Padovani, forthcoming).
Summary
This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel. Being one of the philosophical and institutional motors of the new discipline of philosophy of science, Ernest Nagel is still much underappreciated by scholars. By including a major intellectual biography of Nagel’s life and works (written by his daughter Yvonne Nagel and narrated through the personal correspondence of Ernest Nagel), this book provides a unique opportunity for researchers. The Nagel-Hempel correspondence is published here for the very first time, enabling scholars to get a sense of how logical empiricism emigrated to the States, got acclimatized, and took over American philosophy in less than two decades.
