Ernest Nagel papers, 1930-1988

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Hook, Sidney


Box 1 Santayana, George


Box 1 Hu, Shi

Series II: Arranged Correspondence


Box 1 A - J


Box 1 K - W


Box 1 Bailey, Herbert S., Jr.


Box 1 Bennett, William J.


Box 1 Bentley, Arthur


Box 1 Berenda, Carlton W.


Box 1 Berkson, Joseph


Box 1 Black, Max


Box 1 Brandt, Richard


Box 1 Bryson, Lyman


Box 1 Carnap, Rudolf


Box 1 Chroust, Anton-Hermann


Box 1 Church, Alonzo


Box 1 Cumming, Robert D.


Box 1 Feigl, Herbert


Box 1 Fraenkel, George K.


Box 1 The Free Press


Box 1 Gödel, Kurt


Box 1 Grünbaum, Adolf


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


Box 1 Hempel, C. G. ("Pete")


Box 1 International Institute for the Unity of Science


Box 1 Janus Books


Box 1 Katz, Leo


Box 1 Kolakowski, Leszek


Box 1 Laudan, Larry


Box 1 Lazarsfeld, Paul


Box 1 McGill, William J.


Box 1 Morgenbesser, Sidney


Box 1 Nagel, Ernest, (carbons, etc.


Box 1 New York University Press


Box 1 Parsons, Charles D.


Box 1 Phi Delta Kappa Society


Box 1 Purdom, Paul


Box 1 Reichenbach, Hans.


Box 1 Sovern, Michael


Box 1 Toulmin, Stephen


Box 1 White, Morton


Box 1 Zeisel, Hans



Box 2 Miscellaneous (1) - (3)

Series III: Arranged Manuscripts


Box 2 America Illustrated statement


Box 2 Assumptions in Economic Theory


Box 2 [Biographical portraits of philosophers]


Box 2 Biology [incomplete]


Box 2 Max Black (Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


Box 2 G. Spencer Brown Probability and Scientific Inference., Review


Box 2 A Budget of Problems in the Philosophy of Science


Box 2 [Business school seminar]


Box 2 Butler Gold Medal Speech, 1980


Box 2 Carnap's Theory of Induction (1) - (3)


Box 2 Causal Inferences in the Social Sciences


Box 2 Certainty in Natural Science


Box 2 Changing Conceptions of Science


Box 2 Charles Peirce's Place in Philosophy


Box 2 The Cognitive Status of Theories


Box 2 Cohen Week Celebration Speech


Box 2 Columbia College Award Speech


Box 2 Comments on John Dewey, Logic


Box 2 Comment on Fuller, Human Purposes and Natural Law


Box 2 Comments on Papers by Dr. Crombie and Father Clark


Box 2 [Comments on Professor Holton]


Box 2 [Comments on Professor Toulmin]


Box 2 The Competence of Reason


Box 2 Conference on Scientific Spirit


Box 2 Creativity in Science


Box 2 Current Critiques of Science as a Cumulative Enterprise


Box 2 D'Amato on Law and Custom


Box 2 The Debt We Owe to G. E. Moore


Box 2 Definition and Specification of Meaning


Box 2 Determinism and Development



Box 3 Dewey Lecture , Brandeis, 1959


Box 3 Dewey's Lectures on Ethical Theory


Box 3 Dewey's Lectures on Logic


Box 3 Dewey's Logic of Inquiry


Box 3 Differentiation and Unification in the Natural Sciences


Box 3 Dispositional Concepts


Box 3 Do Life Processes Transcend Physics and Chemistry?


Box 3 Eighth International Congress of Philosophy. Address


Box 3 Encyclopedia Americana, 1954


Box 3 Encyclopedia Americana, 1958


Box 3 The Enforcement of Morals


Box 3 Evidence as Justification


Box 3 Experience and Probability., 1st Draft.; 2nd Draft; 3rd Draft; 4th Draft; 5th Draft; 6th Draft; Final Draft (1) - (2


Box 3 Explanation and Structure of Scientific Knowledge


Box 3 Fact, Value and Human Purpose


Box 3 Fair Play and Civil Disobedience


Box 3 The Formation of Modern Concepts of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry (1) - (4)



Box 4 Freedom and Authority in Scientific Method


Box 4 Freedom and Civilization [Sakharov Conference]


Box 4 A Frequency Theory of Probability (1) - (3)


Box 4 Functionalism in the Social Sciences


Box 4 Gšdel's Proof. 1st Draft.; 2nd Draft.; 3rd Draft.; 4th Draft.; 5th Draft.; 6th Draft. (1) - (2); 7th Draft.; 7th Draft. Revisions.; Final Draft


Box 4 Ernest H. Hutten Language of Modern Physics., Review


Box 4 Impossible Numbers -- A Chapter in the History of Modern Logic


Box 4 Impressions of European Universities: The Nineteen-Thirties


Box 4 [Indefiniteness]


Box 4 Introduction to R. Condon, Probability.


Box 4 Introduction to A. DeMorgan, Budget.


Box 4 Introduction to Greenberg and Gershenson, Anaxagoras.


Box 4 Introduction to A. GrŸnbaum


Box 4 Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method., 1st Draft. (1) - (3



Box 5 Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method, 2nd Draft. (1) - (6); 3rd Draft.


Box 5 Introduction to J. S. Mill, Philosophy of Scientific Method.


Box 5 Introduction to Watson, Understanding Physics.


Box 5 Is Biology Different from Physics?


Box 5 Is the Laplacian Theory of Probability Tenable?


Box 5 Arnold Isenberg Tribute


Box 5 Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations.


Box 5 William James


Box 5 Journal of the History of Biology. Comment.


Box 5 The Judgment of Practise.


Box 5 Krikorian Party Comments


Box 5 Liberalism and Intelligence.


Box 5 A Limitation of the Axiomatic Method.


Box 5 Logic Without Metaphysics. Introduction.


Box 5 Logical Empiricism -- Its Achievements and Its Promise.


Box 5 Logical Positivism and A Priori Knowledge.


Box 5 Logical vs. Psychological Problems of Induction.


Box 5 Man's Right to Know and Free Use Thereof.


Box 5 Mathematics: An Indispensable Tool of Physical Inquiry, Review


Box 5 Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematics, television program


Box 5 Mathematics: Paradoxes, television program



Box 6 Meaning and Knowledge. (1) - (2)


Box 6 The Meaning of Probability.


Box 6 Memorandum on Philosophy in Relation to the Sciences.


Box 6 Method in Social and Natural Science.


Box 6 Methodological Issues in Psychoanalytic Theory.


Box 6 The Methods of Science.


Box 6 Mill's Logic.


Box 6 Mr. Wheelwright's Wisdom.


Box 6 National Teach-In, Washington D.C. Address.


Box 6 The Nature and Aim of Science.


Box 6 Nature and Convention.


Box 6 Nature, Man and Science.


Box 6 The Nature of Scientific Explanation.


Box 6 On the Origin of Dialectic and Syllogism in Greek Philosophy.


Box 6 On the Interpretation of Probability Calculi.


Box 6 On the Logic of Measurement. Chapter 3; Chapter 7.


Box 6 On the Method of Verstehen as the Sole Method of Philosophy.


Box 6 On Three Arguments in Support of Natural Law.


Box 6 [Oral History Interview Transcript]


Box 6 Peirce Review.


Box 6 The Philosopher Looks at Science.


Box 6 Philosophical Concepts of Atheism.


Box 6 Philosophical Interpretations of Contemporary Biology.


Box 6 Philosophical Problems in Biology.


Box 6 Philosophy in Educational Research.



Box 7 The Philosophy of Science.


Box 7 The Philosophy of Science, May 1932

[Radio Lecture]


Box 7 The Philosophy of Science, University of Delaware, 1961


Box 7 Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Education.


Box 7 Philosophy of Science -- Assessment of Evidence.


Box 7 The Place of Science in a Liberal Education.


Box 7 Predictability and Scientific Knowledge.


Box 7 Preference, Evaluation and Reflective Choice.


Box 7 Princeton Conference, 5 Nov. 1965


Box 7 Probability (Logic).


Box 7 Probability and Non-Demonstrative Inference.


Box 7 The Problem of Induction.


Box 7 The Quest for Uncertainty.


Box 7 Rationality in Judicial Decisions.


Box 7 Reduction and Autonomy of the Sciences.


Box 7 Reductive Explanations and Scientific Revolutions.


Box 7 A Rejoinder to Putnam.


Box 7 The Relation Between the Social and the Natural Sciences.


Box 7 The Relation of Sign to Object Signified.


Box 7 Relativism and the Problems of a Working Historian.


Box 7 Relativity and Twentieth-Century Intellectual Life.


Box 7 Reply to "An Objective Probabilism."


Box 7 The Rise of Modern Science.


Box 7 Rorty Talk. Comments, Spring 1973


Box 7 Science and Culture, Bard College


Box 7 Science and Culture

[Phi Beta Kappa Society]


Box 7 Science and Knowledge, 1st Draft and Notes (1) - (2); 2nd Draft.; Final Draft.



Box 8 [Science and Mechanics] (1) - (2)


Box 8 Science and Semantic Realism.


Box 8 Science and the Humanities.


Box 8 Science as a Way of Life.


Box 8 Scientific American, Reviews


Box 8 Scientific Laws and Theories.


Box 8 The Scientific Man.


Box 8 The Scientific Method, Jan. 1964


Box 8 Scientific Method, 1967


Box 8 The Scientific Revolution.


Box 8 Sense and Nonsense -- A Modern Critique of Language.


Box 8 The Social Import of Automatic Control.


Box 8 The Social Sciences.


Box 8 The Sociology of Knowledge and Philosophy of Science.


Box 8 Some Current Issues. Introduction.


Box 8 Some Issues in Teilhard's Theory of Cosmogenesis.


Box 8 Some Leading Principles of Dewey's Logical Theory.


Box 8 Some Notes on Determinism.


Box 8 Some Reflections on Myth and Symbols in Science.


Box 8 Some Reflections on the Use of Language in the Natural Sciences.


Box 8 Some Theses in the Philosophy of Logic.


Box 8 Sovereign Reason. Preliminary Introduction.


Box 8 Sovereign Reason. (1) - (3)


Box 8 State University Centennial Symposium., Speech.


Box 8 The Structure of Evolutionary Explanations.



Box 9 The Structure of Science., 1st Draft. (1) - (6); 2nd Draft (1) - (3



Box 10 The Structure of Science., 2nd Draft (4) - (8); 3rd Draft (1) - (8



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



Box 12 The Structure of Science., Corrected Galleys.



Box 13 The Supremacy of Method


Box 13 Teleology Revisited. (1) - (4)


Box 13 Theory and Observation


Box 13 Truth and Certainty in Science


Box 13 Types of Causal Explanations in Science


Box 13 The Universe and the Paradox of Relevance


Box 13 Verifiability, Truth, Verification


Box 13 What Do Communists Understand by Marxism-Leninism?


Box 13 Wittgenstein


Box 13 Unidentified Mss. (1) - (2)



Box 14 Unidentified Mss. (3) - (4)


Box 14 Miscellaneous Introductions


Box 14 Miscellaneous Book Reviews (1) - (10)

Series IV: Speeches and Lectures



Box 15 On index cards

Series V: Notebooks



Box 16 Algebra, vols


Box 16 Bolzano


Box 16 Cornford, F. M. From Religion to Philosophy.


Box 16 Logic 101-102, 1931-1932


Box 16 Logic 101-102, 1932-1933


Box 16 Logic 101-102, 1933-1934


Box 16 Mathematics, volumes


Box 16 Philosophy Review


Box 16 Tarski, vols


Box 16 Miscellaneous, spiral notebooks

Series VI: Notes



Box 17 Algebra (1) - (2)


Box 17 [City College]


Box 17 Civilization and Progress


Box 17 Cohen and Natural Law


Box 17 Concept Formation in the Social Sciences


Box 17 Dewey: Types of Logical Theory


Box 17 Ethics


Box 17 [Geometry]


Box 17 History and the Social Sciences


Box 17 C. J. KEYSE, Modern Geometry


Box 17 Logic (1) - (2)


Box 17 The Logic of Economic Analysis


Box 17 Mathematics (1) - (2)


Box 17 N. P. MEAD, The World War & Division and Reunion.


Box 17 [Organizations]


Box 17 Probability



Box 18 The Problems of Evolutionary Theory


Box 18 Salmon's "Statistical Relevance" Model


Box 18 Reichenbach, Hans.


Box 18 Richardson, Lewis F.


Box 18 Miscellaneous (1) - (3)

Series VII: Teaching Materials


Box 18 Anatomy of Biological Thought. (1) - (2)


Box 18 Conceptions and Critiques of Reason.


Box 18 Contemporary Philosophical Problems.


Box 18 Explanatory Methods of Empirical Science.


Box 18 Foundations of Modern Physical Science.


Box 18 Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


Box 18 History of Biology.


Box 18 Hull, C. L.


Box 18 Jurisprudence.


Box 18 Legal Philosophy Seminar. 1959-1969; Spring 1962



Box 19 Legal Philosophy Seminar, Autumn 1962; 963; Fall 1965; Fall 1967; Autumn 1968; Fall 1970; Fall 1971; Fall 1972


Box 19 Legal Philosophy Seminar Related Materials.


Box 19 Logic (1) - (4)


Box 19 Logic (1) - (5), 1937-1938


Box 19 Logic, 1941-1950



Box 20 Logic, 1943


Box 20 Logic, 1951-1952


Box 20 Logic. Examinations.


Box 20 Logic. Related Materials. (1) - (2)


Box 20 Logic in Practice.(1) - (2)


Box 20 Logic of Social Inquiry, 1953; 1954


Box 20 Related Materials.


Box 20 Logic of Social Research, 1955; 1956; 1957; 1959; 1961; 1964


Box 20 Logic of Social research. Related Materials



Box 21 Logical Theory (1) - (2), 1948-1949


Box 21 Logical Theory, 1952-1953.


Box 21 Nineteenth Century Philosophies of Science


Box 21 Philosophy Examinations. (1) - (3)


Box 21 Philosophy of Civilization.


Box 21 Philosophy of Language. (1) - (3)


Box 21 Philosophy of Law, Spring 1963; Spring 1978.


Box 21 Philosophy of Law. Examinations.



Box 22 Philosophy of Law, Reading Lists.


Box 22 Philosophy of Law. Related Materials (1) - (6)


Box 22 Philosophy of Mathematics. (1) - (5)



Box 23 Philosophy of Mathematics. (6) - (10)


Box 23 Philosophy of Mathematics (1) - (5), 1957



Box 24 Philosophy of Science.


Box 24 Philosophy of Science, 1943.; 1950.; 1954.; 1958.


Box 24 Philosophy of Science Seminar, 1961.


Box 24 Philosophy of Science Seminar (1) - (2), 1968; 1971.


Box 24 Philosophy of Science. Related Materials.


Box 24 Probability and Induction. (1) - (6)



Box 25 Reading Lists.


Box 25 Science and Imagination.


Box 25 Scientific Methods and Stages in Their Historical Development


Box 25 Swarthmore College Honors, Examinations.


Box 25 Theory of Knowledge, 1951.; 1954.


Box 25 Theory of Knowledge, 1955; 1956; 1966.


Box 25 Related Materials. (1) - (3)


Box 25 Theory of Meaning.


Box 25 Theory of Value. [University Seminar]


Box 25 The Thought of the Nineteenth Century. (1) - (3)


Box 25 Turning Points in the History of Science.


Box 25 University of Melbourne.


Box 25 Miscellaneous

Series VIII: Subject Files



Box 26 Academy of Humanism.


Box 26 Agriculture, Department of


Box 26 American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Box 26 American Economic Association Conference.


Box 26 American Friends of Hebrew University.


Box 26 American Philosophical Society.


Box 26 American Philosophical Society. Annual Meeting, 1964


Box 26 American University. Hurst Philosophy Lecture.


Box 26 Bibliographic References.


Box 26 The British Academy.


Box 26 Carnap, Rudolf.


Box 26 Carus Lectures.


Box 26 Catholic University of America.


Box 26 Columbia University Lectures, 1973


Box 26 Conference for Federal Science Executives.


Box 26 Cooper Union.


Box 26 Descartes Tricentenary.


Box 26 John DEWEY Foundation. (1) - (3)



Box 27 John DEWEY Foundation. Essay Project; Minutes.


Box 27 Edel Festschrift.


Box 27 Educational Policies Commission.


Box 27 Einstein Centennial.


Box 27 Einstein College Colloquium.


Box 27 Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century.


Box 27 Fordham University Conference, 1965


Box 27 Philipp FRANK Dinner.


Box 27 Freiss, Horace L.


Box 27 Gšdel, Kurt.


Box 27 Gšdel's Proof.


Box 27 Harvard Commencement, 1966.


Box 27 Haverford College Institute.


Box 27 KQED Computer Series. (1)



Box 28 KQED Computer Series. (2)


Box 28 Journal of Philosophy Notes on Tadeuxz KOTARBINSKI Translation.


Box 28 Paul F. LAZARSFELD Fund.


Box 28 Logic of Historical Explanation. Conference. (1) - (2)


Box 28 Logical Positivism. Conference.


Box 28 Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.


Box 28 Morgenbesser Festschrift.


Box 28 Nagel Speech Announcements.


Box 28 National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council. (1) - (2)



Box 29 National Academy of Sciences National Research Council. (3)


Box 29 National Endowment for the Humanities.


Box 29 National Endowment for the Humanities. Interdisciplinary Institute.


Box 29 National Science Foundation.


Box 29 New School for Social Research.


Box 29 Charles PEIRCE Colloquium.


Box 29 Charles PEIRCE Colloquium. Related Items.


Box 29 Phi Delta Kappa Symposium on Educational Research.


Box 29 Philosophy of Education Society.


Box 29 Philosophy of Science Association (1) - (2)


Box 29 Princeton University.



Box 30 Randall, J. H.


Box 30 Reichenbach, Hans.


Box 30 Rockefeller Foundation Grant


Box 30 Andrei SAKHAROV Conference, 1981


Box 30 Science, Philosophy and Religion Symposium, 1965


Box 30 Scientific Frontiers and their Interaction with Society.


Box 30 Smith College. Science Committee.


Box 30 Solow, Herbert.


Box 30 Sterling Forest Conference Program.


Box 30 The Tamiment Institute (1) - (2)


Box 30 Teleology Revisited.


Box 30 University Center in Virginia


Box 30 University of Chicago. Conceptual Foundations of Science.


Box 30 Venuxem Lectures.


Box 30 Miscellaneous.


Box 30 Clippings.

Series IX: Manuscripts inscribed to E. Nagel



Box 31 A - M



Box 32 S - W

Series X: Printed Materials



Box 33 Printed Books inscribed to Nagel



Box 34 Printed Books inscribed to Nagel



Box 35 Printed Books inscribed to Nagel



Box 36 Printed Materials and Printed Books by Nagel

Series XI: 1989 Addition


Subseries XI.1: Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method



Box 37 Variant Draft-ver. 1, a.m.s. (1


Box 37 Variant Draft-ver. 2, t.m.s.(2


Box 37 Variant Draft-ver. 2, exercises and analytic, index t.m.s. (carbon) (3


Box 37 Variant Draft-ver. 2, carbon, t.m.s. (carbon) (4


Subseries XI.2: Notes


Box 37 Miscellaneous


Subseries XI.3: Teaching Materials


Box 37 Grade Book for Philosophy Courses