Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity

• Chapter 1. A Life Between: Ernest Nagel (Matthias Neuber and Adam Tamas Tuboly).- Chapter 2. Ernest Nagel and the Reception of Logical Empiricism in the United States (Sander Verhaegh).- Chapter 3. Between Enthusiasm and Disenchantment: Ernest Nagel and Logical Empiricism (Thomas Mormann).- Chapter 4. Putting the Cart before the Horse: Nagel’s Criticism of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (Jeanne Peijnenburg and David Atkinson). Chapter 5.  Nagel on Idealization in Science (Raphael van Riel).- Chapter 6. Determinism as a Guiding Principle (Marij van Strien).- Chapter 7. On Nagel’s ‘Truth-frequency’ Interpretation of Probability (Maria Carla Galavotti).- Chapter 8. Neurath and Nagel on Semantics (Lucas Baccarat).- Chapter 9. On Nagel on Teleology in Biology (Bohang Chen).- Chapter 10. Nagel Teaching Aristotle and Philosophy of Science (Fons Dewulf).- Chapter 11. Nagel’s Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Matthias Neuber).- Chapter 12. Ernest Nagel the Reviewer (Eric Schliesser).- Appendix: The Nagel-Hempel Correspondence.

“The volume is recommended for Nagel scholars and historians of philosophy of science who would like to learn more about a prominent yet recently somewhat forgotten — or maybe better: ignored — proponent of philosophy of science and his thoughts. … It will be a suitable basis for a graduate course on Nagel and his philosophy. Equally well, individual papers from the collection will be a worthwhile addition to the reading list of topical seminars … .” (Alexander Ehmann, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 54, 2023)