Nagel, Ernest

Nagel, Ernest and James R. Newman. Godd s Proof. New York University Press, New York, 1958. 

Nagel, Ernest. 1961. The structure of science. Problems in the logic of explanation. New York Harcourt, Brace World, Inc. 

Nagel, Ernest. 1935. The logic of reduction in the sciences. Erkenntnis 5 46-52. 

Nagel, Ernest. 1949. The meaning of reduction in the natural sciences. In Science and civilization, ed. Robert Stouffer, 99-135. Madison University of Wisconsin Press. 

Nagel, Ernest. 1970. Issues in the logic of reductive explanations. In Mind, science, and history, ed. Howard Kiefer and Milton Munitz, 117-137. Albany SUNY Press. 

This concept of reduction amounts to unity by identification. In order to understand how a concept of theory-reduction may fit the characterization that the concept of reduction reconciles diversity and directionality with strong unity, without relying on elimination, consider Ernest Nagel s famous characterization of the reduction-relation ... 

Feyerabend, Paul K. 1966. The structure of science , review of the structure of science, by Ernest Nagel. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 17 237-249. 

Hempel, Carl G. 1969. Reduction Ontological and linguistic facets. In Philosophy, science, and method Essays in honor of Ernest Nagel, ed. Morton White, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Patrick Suppes, 179-199. New York St. Martin s Press. 

The debate over reduction has had a long and storied history within the philosophy of science, and there is continuing debate over the adequacy of different accounts of it. The classic, and still widely embraced, view of reductionism has been given by Ernest Nagel, in his book The Stnic-... 

Despite the ubiquity of the term reduction in the philosophy of science, there is a fierce debate over how it should be defined. The classic definition can be found in Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science (New York Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1961). Perhaps... 

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