
In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences--perhaps the highest award of its kind in the United States. The award committee described his work in mathematical logic as "one of the greatest contributions to the sciences in recent times."However, few mathematicians of the time were equipped to understand the young scholar's complex proof. Ernest Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation to both scholars and non-specialists of the main ideas and broad implications of Gödel's discovery. It offers every educated person with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to understand a previously difficult and inaccessible subject.
by Ernest Nagel
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
"Ernest Nagel's work, The Structure of Science, has earned for itself the status of an outstanding standard work in its field. It offers an exceptionally thorough and comprehensive methodological and philosophical exploration encountered in those diverse fields. Nagel's discussion is distinguished by the lucidity of its style, the incisiveness of its reasoning, and the solidity of its grounding in all the major branches of scientific inquiry. The Structure of Science has become a highly influential work that is widely invoked in the methodological and philosophical literature. Recent controversies between analytics and historic-sociological approaches to the philosophy of science have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatist component in Nagel's thinking may be helpful for efforts to develop a rapprochement between the contending schools." --Carl G. Hempel
Chicago 1953 7th edition. University of Chicago Press. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science Volume 1 No. 6. Octavo, 80pp., original printed wraps. VG plus, some minor wear.
by Ernest Nagel
Rating: 3.2 ⭐
Ernest Nagel, one of the world's leading philosophers of science, is an unreconstructed empirical rationalist who continues to believe that the logical methods of the modern natural sciences are the most successful instruments men have devised to acquire reliable knowledge. This book presents "Teleology Revisited"the John Dewey le
Book by Nagel, Professor Ernest Sylvain
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by Ernest Nagel
Rating: 3.0 ⭐
LA LOGICA SIN METAFISICA by Ernest Nagel
by Ernest Nagel
by Ernest Nagel
Buenos Aires. 23 cm. 544 p. grab. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Versión de Nestor Míguez supervisada por Gregorio Klimovsky. Ciencia. Filosofía. Míguez, Néstor .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.
by Ernest Nagel
by Ernest Nagel
by Ernest Nagel
Madrid. 23 cm. 344 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Estructura y Función', numero coleccion(v. 22). Traducción por J. L. A. G. Ciencia. Filosofía. I. J. E .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.
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by Ernest Nagel
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