ABSTRACT

NAGEL, ERNEST Ernest Nagel was born in 1901 in Slovakia, then a part of Hungary. Nagel arrived in the United States in 1911 and became a citizen in 1919. He was for years one of the editors of The Journal of Philosophy. During the latter part of the twentieth century, Ernest Nagel was considered (by a British reviewer of one of his books) as one of America’s two or three foremost philosophers. Because he was considered dispassionate and objective, he was chosen to moderate a projected (but never realized) national debate on the Viet Nam War.