Ernest Nagel Papers - Columbia University



Ernest Nagel Papers

Papers, 1930-1988

15 linear ft. (ca. 5,100 items in 37 Boxes)

Biography/History: Ernest Nagel (1901-1985), philosopher and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. Nagel received a B. S. 1923 from City College and a M. A. 1925 and Ph. D. 1930 from Columbia. First appointed to Columbia's faculty in 1930 Nagel became John Dewey Professor of Philosophy in 1955 and University Professor in 1967.

Summary: Correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, notebooks, notes, teaching materials, subject files, clippings, printed materials and books of Ernest Nagel. Included among the correspondence are William J. Bennett, Rudolph Carnap, Kurt Gödel, Adolph Grünbaum, C. G. Hemple, Paul Lazarsfeld, William J. McGill and Morton White. The collection's manuscripts include most of Nagel's essays and articles as well as drafts of his major works, including "The Structure of Science" (1961). The teaching materials contain syllabi, reading lists and lecture plans from the philosophy courses Nagel taught at Columbia. The collection also includes numerous manuscripts and printed materials by other authors which were inscribed to Nagel. In addition, there are printed materials and printed books by Nagel at the end of the collection.

Restrictions on Access: Available for faculty, students, or researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects.

Restrictions on Use: Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Provenance: Gift of Ernest Nagel, 1980Gift of Alexander and Sidney Nagel, 1988

Processing History: Processed by TC 8/88

HM 2/90 rev.

Microfilm Information: No material on microfilm

Physical Loaction: In sequence

RLIN ID: NYCR88-A107

Box 1. Cataloged Correspondence

Hook, Sidney Santayana, George Shi, Hu

Arranged Correspondence

A - J

K - W

Bailey, Herbert S., Jr.

Bennett, William J.

Bentley, Arthur

Berenda, Carlton W.

Berkson, Joseph

Black, Max

Brandt, Richard

Bryson, Lyman

Carnap, Rudolf

Chroust, Anton-Hermann

Church, Alonzo

Cumming, Robert D.

Feigl, Herbert

Fraenkel, George K.

The Free Press

Gödel, Kurt

Grünbaum, Adolf

Harcourt, Brace and World (1) - (2)

Hempel, C. G. ("Pete")

International Institute for the Unity of Science

Janus Books

Katz, Leo

Kolakowski, Leszek

Laudan, Larry

Lazarsfeld, Paul

McGill, William J.

Morgenbesser, Sidney

Nagel, Ernest (carbons, etc.)

New York University Press

Parsons, Charles D.

Phi Delta Kappa Society

Purdom, Paul

Reichenbach, Hans.

Sovern, Michael

Toulmin, Stephen

White, Morton

Zeisel, Hans

Box 2. Arranged Correspondence

Miscellaneous (1) - (3)

Manuscripts.

America Illustrated statement

Assumptions in Economic Theory

[Biographical portraits of philosophers]

Biology [incomplete]

Max BLACK (Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

G. Spencer BROWN, Probability and Scientific Inference. (Review)

A Budget of Problems in the Philosophy of Science

[Business school seminar]

Butler Gold Medal Speech (1980)

Carnap's Theory of Induction (1) - (3)

Causal Inferences in the Social Sciences

Certainty in Natural Science

Changing Conceptions of Science

Charles Peirce's Place in Philosophy

The Cognitive Status of Theories

Cohen Week Celebration Speech

Columbia College Award Speech

Comments on John Dewey, Logic

Comment on Fuller, Human Purposes and Natural Law

Comments on Papers by Dr. Crombie and Father Clark

[Comments on Professor Holton]

[Comments on Professor Toulmin]

The Competence of Reason

Conference on Scientific Spirit

Creativity in Science

Current Critiques of Science as a Cumulative Enterprise

D'Amato on Law and Custom

The Debt We Owe to G. E. Moore

Definition and Specification of Meaning

Determinism and Development

Box 3. Manuscripts

Dewey Lecture (Brandeis, 1959)

Dewey's Lectures on Ethical Theory

Dewey's Lectures on Logic

Dewey's Logic of Inquiry

Differentiation and Unification in the Natural Sciences

Dispositional Concepts

Do Life Processes Transcend Physics and Chemistry?

Eighth International Congress of Philosophy. Address

Encyclopedia Americana (1954)

Encyclopedia Americana (1958)

The Enforcement of Morals

Evidence as Justification

Experience and Probability. 1st Draft.

2nd Draft

3rd Draft

4th Draft

5th Draft

6th Draft

Final Draft (1) - (2)

Explanation and Structure of Scientific Knowledge

Fact, Value and Human Purpose

Fair Play and Civil Disobedience

The Formation of Modern Concepts of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry (1) - (4)

Box 4. Manuscripts

Freedom and Authority in Scientific Method

Freedom and Civilization [Sakharov Conference]

A Frequency Theory of Probability (1) - (3)

Functionalism in the Social Sciences

Gödel's Proof. 1st Draft.

2nd Draft.

3rd Draft.

4th Draft.

5th Draft.

6th Draft. (1) - (2)

7th Draft.

7th Draft. Revisions.

Final Draft

Ernest H. HUTTEN, Language of Modern Physics. (Review)

Impossible Numbers -- A Chapter in the History of Modern Logic

Impressions of European Universities: The Nineteen-Thirties

[Indefiniteness]

Introduction to R. Condon, Probability.

Introduction to A. DeMorgan, Budget.

Introduction to Greenberg and Gershenson, Anaxagoras.

Introduction to A. Grünbaum

Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. 1st Draft. (1) - (3)

Box 5. Manuscripts

Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. 2nd Draft. (1) - (6)

3rd Draft.

Introduction to J. S. Mill, Philosophy of Scientific Method.

Introduction to Watson, Understanding Physics.

Is Biology Different from Physics?

Is the Laplacian Theory of Probability Tenable?

Arnold ISENBERG Tribute

Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations.

William JAMES

Journal of the History of Biology. Comment.

The Judgment of Practise.

Krikorian Party Comments

Liberalism and Intelligence.

A Limitation of the Axiomatic Method.

Logic Without Metaphysics. Introduction.

Logical Empiricism -- Its Achievements and Its Promise.

Logical Positivism and A Priori Knowledge.

Logical vs. Psychological Problems of Induction.

Man's Right to Know and Free Use Thereof.

Mathematics: An Indispensable Tool of Physical Inquiry (Review)

Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematics (television program)

Mathematics: Paradoxes (television program)

Box 6. Manuscripts

Meaning and Knowledge. (1) - (2)

The Meaning of Probability.

Memorandum on Philosophy in Relation to the Sciences.

Method in Social and Natural Science.

Methodological Issues in Psychoanalytic Theory.

The Methods of Science.

Mill's Logic.

Mr. Wheelwright's Wisdom.

National Teach-In, Washington D.C. Address.

The Nature and Aim of Science.

Nature and Convention.

Nature, Man and Science.

The Nature of Scientific Explanation.

On the Origin of Dialectic and Syllogism in Greek Philosophy.

On the Interpretation of Probability Calculi.

On the Logic of Measurement. Chapter 3.

Chapter 7.

On the Method of Verstehen as the Sole Method of Philosophy.

On Three Arguments in Support of Natural Law.

[Oral History Interview Transcript]

Peirce Review.

The Philosopher Looks at Science.

Philosophical Concepts of Atheism.

Philosophical Interpretations of Contemporary Biology.

Philosophical Problems in Biology.

Philosophy in Educational Research.

Box 7. Manuscripts

The Philosophy of Science.

The Philosophy of Science. (Radio Lecture, May 1932)

The Philosophy of Science. (University of Delaware, 1961)

Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Education.

Philosophy of Science -- Assessment of Evidence.

The Place of Science in a Liberal Education.

Predictability and Scientific Knowledge.

Preference, Evaluation and Reflective Choice.

Princeton Conference (5 Nov. 1965)

Probability (Logic).

Probability and Non-Demonstrative Inference.

The Problem of Induction.

The Quest for Uncertainty.

Rationality in Judicial Decisions.

Reduction and Autonomy of the Sciences.

Reductive Explanations and Scientific Revolutions.

A Rejoinder to Putnam.

The Relation Between the Social and the Natural Sciences.

The Relation of Sign to Object Signified.

Relativism and the Problems of a Working Historian.

Relativity and Twentieth-Century Intellectual Life.

Reply to "An Objective Probabilism."

The Rise of Modern Science.

Rorty Talk. Comments. (Spring 1973)

Science and Culture. (Bard College)

Science and Culture. (Phi Beta Kappa Society)

Science and Knowledge. 1st Draft and Notes (1) - (2)

2nd Draft.

Final Draft.

Box 8. Manuscripts

[Science and Mechanics] (1) - (2)

Science and Semantic Realism.

Science and the Humanities.

Science as a Way of Life.

Scientific American (Reviews)

Scientific Laws and Theories.

The Scientific Man.

The Scientific Method. (Jan. 1964)

Scientific Method. (1967)

The Scientific Revolution.

Sense and Nonsense -- A Modern Critique of Language.

The Social Import of Automatic Control.

The Social Sciences.

The Sociology of Knowledge and Philosophy of Science.

Some Current Issues. Introduction.

Some Issues in Teilhard's Theory of Cosmogenesis.

Some Leading Principles of Dewey's Logical Theory.

Some Notes on Determinism.

Some Reflections on Myth and Symbols in Science.

Some Reflections on the Use of Language in the Natural Sciences.

Some Theses in the Philosophy of Logic.

Sovereign Reason. Preliminary Introduction.

Sovereign Reason. (1) - (3)

State University Centennial Symposium. Speech.

The Structure of Evolutionary Explanations.

Box 9. Manuscripts

The Structure of Science. 1st Draft. (1) - (6)

2nd Draft (1) - (3)

Box 10. Manuscripts

The Structure of Science. 2nd Draft (4) - (8)

3rd Draft (1) - (8)

Box 11. Manuscripts

The Structure of Science. Publisher's Copy. (1) - (11)

Box 12. Manuscripts

The Structure of Science. Corrected Galleys.

Box 13. Manuscripts

The Supremacy of Method

Teleology Revisited. (1) - (4)

Theory and Observation

Truth and Certainty in Science

Types of Causal Explanations in Science

The Universe and the Paradox of Relevance

Verifiability, Truth, Verification

What Do Communists Understand by Marxism-Leninism?

Wittgenstein

Unidentified Mss. (1) - (2)

Box 14. Manuscripts

Unidentified Mss. (3) - (4)

Miscellaneous Introductions

Miscellaneous Book Reviews (1) - (10)

Box 15. Speeches and Lectures (on index cards)

Box 16. Notebooks

Algebra (4 vols)

Bolzano

Cornford, F. M. From Religion to Philosophy.

Logic 101-102 (1931-1932)

Logic 101-102 (1932-1933)

Logic 101-102 (1933-1934)

Mathematics (3 vols.)

Philosophy Review

Tarski (2 vols.)

Miscellaneous (3 spiral notebooks)

Box 17. Notes

Algebra (1) - (2)

[City College]

Civilization and Progress

Cohen and Natural Law

Concept Formation in the Social Sciences

Dewey: Types of Logical Theory

Ethics

[Geometry]

History and the Social Sciences

C. J. KEYSE, Modern Geometry

Logic (1) - (2)

The Logic of Economic Analysis

Mathematics (1) - (2)

N. P. MEAD, The World War & Division and Reunion.

[Organizations]

Probability

Box 18. Notes

The Problems of Evolutionary Theory

Salmon's "Statistical Relevance" Model

Reichenbach, Hans.

Richardson, Lewis F.

Miscellaneous (1) - (3)

Teaching Materials

Anatomy of Biological Thought. (1) - (2)

Conceptions and Critiques of Reason.

Contemporary Philosophical Problems.

Explanatory Methods of Empirical Science.

Foundations of Modern Physical Science.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

History of Biology.

Hull, C. L.

Jurisprudence.

Legal Philosophy Seminar. 1959-1969

Spring 1962

Box 19. Teaching Materials

Legal Philosophy Seminar. Autumn 1962

1963

Fall 1965

Fall 1967

Autumn 1968

Fall 1970

Fall 1971

Fall 1972

Related Materials.

Logic (1) - (4)

Logic (1937-1938) (1) - (5)

Logic (1941-1950)

Box 20. Teaching Materials

Logic (1943).

Logic (1951-1952).

Logic. Examinations.

Logic. Related Materials. (1) - (2)

Logic in Practice.(1) - (2)

Logic of Social Inquiry. 1953

1954

Related Materials.

Logic of Social Research. 1955

1956

1957

1959

1961

1964

Related Materials

Box 21. Teaching Materials

Logical Theory. 1948-1949 (1) - (2)

Logical Theory. 1952-1953.

Nineteenth Century Philosophies of Science

Philosophy Examinations. (1) - (3)

Philosophy of Civilization.

Philosophy of Language. (1) - (3)

Philosophy of Law. Spring 1963.

Spring 1978.

Examinations.

Box 22. Teaching Materials

Philosophy of Law. Reading Lists.

Related Materials (1) - (6)

Philosophy of Mathematics. (1) - (5)

Box 23. Teaching Materials

Philosophy of Mathematics. (6) - (10)

Philosophy of Mathematics. 1957. (1) - (5)

Box 24. Teaching Materials

Philosophy of Science.

Philosophy of Science. 1943.

1950.

1954.

1958.

Philosophy of Science Seminar. 1961.

Philosophy of Science Seminar. 1968. (1) - (2)

1971.

Related Materials.

Probability and Induction. (1) - (6)

Box 25. Teaching Materials

Reading Lists.

Science and Imagination.

Scientific Methods and Stages in Their Historical Development

Swarthmore College. Honors Examinations.

Theory of Knowledge. 1951.

1954.

Theory of Knowledge. 1955.

1956.

1966.

Related Materials. (1) - (3)

Theory of Meaning.

Theory of Value. [University Seminar]

The Thought of the Nineteenth Century. (1) - (3)

Turning Points in the History of Science.

University of Melbourne.

Miscellaneous

Box 26. Subject Files

Academy of Humanism.

Agriculture, Department of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

American Economic Association Conference.

American Friends of Hebrew University.

American Philosophical Society.

American Philosophical Society. Annual Meeting (1964).

American University. Hurst Philosophy Lecture.

Bibliographic References.

The British Academy.

Carnap, Rudolf.

Carus Lectures.

Catholic University of America.

Columbia University. Lectures (1973)

Conference for Federal Science Executives.

Cooper Union.

Descartes Tricentenary.

John DEWEY Foundation. (1) - (3)

Box 27. Subject Files.

John DEWEY Foundation. Essay Project.

Minutes.

Edel Festschrift.

Educational Policies Commission.

Einstein Centennial.

Einstein College Colloquium.

Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century.

Fordham University Conference (1965).

Philipp FRANK Dinner.

Freiss, Horace L.

Gödel, Kurt.

Gödel's Proof.

Harvard Commencement, 1966.

Haverford College Institute.

KQED Computer Series. (1)

Box 28. Subject Files

KQED Computer Series. (2)

Journal of Philosophy, Notes on

Tadeuxz KOTARBINSKI Translation.

Paul F. LAZARSFELD Fund.

Logic of Historical Explanation. Conference. (1) - (2)

Logical Positivism. Conference.

Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Morgenbesser Festschrift.

Nagel Speech Announcements.

National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council. (1) - (2)

Box 29. Subject Files.

National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council. (3)

National Endowment for the Humanities.

National Endowment for the Humanities. Interdisciplinary Institute.

National Science Foundation.

New School for Social Research.

Charles PEIRCE Colloquium.

Charles PEIRCE Colloquium. Related Items.

Phi Delta Kappa Symposium on Educational Research.

Philosophy of Education Society.

Philosophy of Science Association. (1) - (2)

Princeton University.

Box 30. Subject Files

Randall, J. H.

Reichenbach, Hans.

Rockefeller Foundation Grant

Andrei SAKHAROV Conference (1981).

Science, Philosophy and Religion Symposium (1965).

Scientific Frontiers and their Interaction with Society.

Smith College. Science Committee.

Solow, Herbert.

Sterling Forest Conference Program.

The Tamiment Institute. (1) - (2)

Teleology Revisited.

University Center in Virginia

University of Chicago. Conceptual Foundations of Science.

Venuxem Lectures.

Miscellaneous.

Clippings.

Box 31. Manuscripts inscribed to E. Nagel, A - M

Box 32. Manuscripts inscribed to E. Nagel, S - W

Printed Materials inscribed to E. Nagel

Box 33 - 35. Printed Books inscribed to Nagel

Box 36. Printed Materials and Printed Books by Nagel

Box 37. 1989 Addition

Manuscripts

Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method.

Variant Draft-ver. 1, a.m.s. (1)

Variant Draft-ver. 2, pp.42-405, t.m.s. (2)

Variant Draft-ver. 2, exercises and analytic

index t.m.s. (carbon) (3)

Variant Draft-ver. 2, carbon, pp.1-300,

t.m.s. (carbon) (4)

Notes

Miscellaneous

Teaching Materials

Grade Book for Philosophy Courses

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