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According to Wikipedia, Ernest Nagel was an American philosopher of science. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement. His 1961 book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the logic of scientific explanation.

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The Structure of Science (1962) (2844)
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (1963) (819)
The structure of science : problems in the logic of scientific explanation (1961) (771)
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (1934) (722)
Meaning and Necessity. A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (1948) (415)
Gödel's Proof (1961) (235)
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Proceedings of the 1960 International Congress (1962) (184)
Philosophy, science, and method : essays in honor of Ernest Nagel (1969) (139)
Principles of the Theory of Probability (1939) (138)
The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry (1939) (137)
Goal-Directed Processes in Biology (1977) (112)
Are naturalists materialists (1945) (103)
Mechanistic Explanation and Organismic Biology (1951) (102)
Modern Theories of Development. (1935) (98)
Assumptions in economic theory (1963) (94)
Philosophy Science and Method (1969) (74)
Determinism In History (1960) (60)
Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe. II (1936) (51)
Logic Without Metaphysics (1957) (51)
John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of Scientific Method (1950) (49)
Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science (1979) (49)
Wholes, sums, and organic unities (1952) (44)
Commentary—Part I (1969) (41)
The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation. (1964) (40)
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry John Dewey, the Later Works, 1925-1953, Vol. 12 (1988) (38)
Functional Explanations in Biology (1977) (29)
Some Issues in the Logic of Historical Analysis (1952) (25)
Scientific psychology : principles and approaches (1965) (23)
Induction: Some Current Issues (1965) (19)
Nature and Convention (1929) (18)
Science and Humanism; Physics in Our Time (1952) (16)
Observation and theory in science (1971) (16)
The logic of reduction in the sciences: (1935) (15)
Logic without metaphysics : and other essays in the philosophy of science (1959) (15)
Meaning and Knowledge (1993) (14)
The Limits of Science (1949) (14)
Philosophy of science and educational theory (1969) (14)
On the Logic of Measurement. (1932) (13)
On the Method of Verstehen as the Sole Method of Philosophy (1953) (13)
Verifiability, Truth, and Verification (1934) (12)
Charles S. Peirce, Pioneer of Modern Empiricism (1940) (12)
The Eighth International Congress of Philosophy (1934) (12)
Science and Semantic Realism (1950) (11)
Some Reflections on the Use of Language in the Natural Sciences (1945) (11)
Meaning and knowledge : systematic readings in epistemology (1965) (11)
The Problem of Knowledge. Philosophy, Science, and History since Hegel (1951) (10)
Probability and the Theory of Knowledge (1939) (10)
The Meaning of Probability (1936) (9)
Sovereign Reason and other Studies in the Philosophy of Science. (1955) (9)
The Counter-Revolution of Science; Studies on the Use of Reason (1952) (8)
On the Fusion of Fact and Value: A Reply to Professor Fuller (1958) (8)
Time and Its Mysteries. (1942) (7)
Charles Peirce's Guesses at the Riddle (1933) (7)
Some Theses in the Philosophy of Logic (1938) (5)
Introduction to logic scientific method (1934) (5)
Probability and Non-Demonstrative Inference (1945) (5)
Philosophy in a New Key (1943) (5)
A symposium of reviews of John Dewey's logic: The theory of inquiry (1939) (5)
Professor Reichenbach on Quantum Mechanics: A Rejoinder (1946) (5)
A Frequency Theory of Probability (1933) (4)
Charles Peirce's place in philosophy (1982) (4)
Freedom and reason : studies in philosophy and Jewish culture in memory of Morris Raphael Cohen (1951) (4)
Can Logic be Divorced from Ontology (4)
Sovereign reason : and other studies in the philosophy of science (1956) (4)
A Budget of Problems in the Philosophy of Science (1957) (4)
A Rejoinder to Putnam (1965) (3)
Intuition, Consistency, and the Excluded Middle (3)
IV.—CRITICAL NOTICES (1936) (3)
10. Logic Without Ontology (1944) (3)
Symposium on Meaning and Truth, Part III: Discussion: Truth and Knowledge of the Truth (1944) (2)
Review: James Feibleman, A Reply to Bertrand Russell's Introduction to the Second Edition of The Principles of Mathematics (1944) (2)
Review: Everett W. Hall, The Extra-Linguistic Reference of Language (1944) (2)
Freedom and Reason (1951) (2)
Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism: Selected Essays of Arnold Isenberg (1974) (2)
Review: Wilfrid Sellars, Epistemology and the New Way of Words; Wilfrid Sellars, Realism and the New Way of Words (1948) (2)
Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Proceedings (1962) (2)
Fact, Value, and Human Purpose (1959) (2)
Review: Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematics and the Good (1942) (2)
Putnam's Review of Gödel's Proof (1961) (1)
In Defense of Logic Without Metaphysics (1949) (1)
Hofstadter Albert. On semantic problems. The journal of philosophy, vol. 35 (1938), pp. 225–232. (1938) (1)
Review: Albert Hofstadter, On Semantic Problems (1938) (1)
Is the Laplacean Theory of Probability Tenable (1946) (1)
Review: J. O. Wisdom, Positivism (1945) (1)
Morris R. Cohen in Retrospect (1957) (1)
Review: Alice Ambrose, Self-Contradictory Suppositions (1944) (1)
Book Review:Work and History. An Essay on the Structure of Civilization Paul Schrecker (1949) (1)
Rejoinder to Mr. Kaufmann's Reply (1944) (1)
Black Max. Vagueness. Philosophy of science. vol. 4 (1937), pp. 427–455. (1938) (1)
Some Gleanings from the Life of Reason (1954) (1)
Review: Kurt Grelling, A Logical Theory of Dependence (1939) (1)
The Basis and Structure of Knowledge (1948) (1)
Review: Eugene P. Northrop, Riddles in Mathematics. A Book of Paradoxes (1945) (1)
Report of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (1931) (1)
Blanshard Brand. The nature of thought . Chapter xxviii, Empiricism and necessity; Chapter xxix, Formalism and necessity; Chapter xxx, Logical positivism and necessity. Vol. 2, The Macmillan Company, New York 1940, pp. 335–427. (1940) (1)
An Experiment with Time (1)
Letter from Ernest Nagel to Joshua Lederberg (1978) (0)
Christenson James A. Jr. The if-then relation and scientific inference. Psychological review , pp. 486–493. (1942) (0)
Review: F. H. Heinemann, The Meaning of Negation (1946) (0)
The Idea of Mapping and Its Use in Mathematics (1978) (0)
Review: C. West Churchman, On Finite and Infinite Modal Systems (1938) (0)
B. A. Bernstein. Remark on Nicod's reduction of Principia mathematica. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 2 (1937), pp. 165–166. (1938) (0)
Review: J. C. C. McKinsey, A Note on Reichenbach's Axioms for Probability Implication (1940) (0)
Review: Kurt Grelling, Paul Oppenheim, Logical Analysis of "Gestalt" as "Functional Whole." (1939) (0)
Review: Andrew Ushenko, Logical Form and Sensory Structure (1942) (0)
Review: W. T. Stace, Positivism (1944) (0)
Review: William Barrett, The Present State of the Problem of Induction (1940) (0)
Grelling Kurt. A logical theory of dependence. Ditto, 9 pp. (1939) (0)
Review: Max Black, Vagueness. An Exercise in Logical Analysis (1938) (0)
Professor Ducasse's Criterion of Truth (1945) (0)
Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science . Eric Temple Bell. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951. 437 pp. $5.00.; The Main Stream of Mathematics . Edna E. Kramer. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1951. 321 pp. $5.00. (1951) (0)
Werkmeister William Henry. Seven theses of logical positivism critically examined. The philosophical review, vol. 46 (1937), pp. 276–297, 357–376. (1937) (0)
Review: K. R. Popper, Are Contradictions Embracing? (1943) (0)
Kattsoff L. O. and Thibaut J.. Semiotic and psychological concepts. Psychological review, vol. 49 (1942), pp. 475–485. (1942) (0)
Black Max. Russell's philosophy of language. The philosophy of Bertrand Russell , edited by Schilpp Paul Arthur, Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago 1944, pp. 227–255. (1944) (0)
Philosophy of Science.The Structure of Scientific Thought: An Introduction to Philosophy of (1961) (0)
Cosmology. The Philosophical Study of the Inorganic World (1942) (0)
Jeffreys Harold. The nature of mathematics. Philosophy of science, vol. 5 (1938), pp. 434–451. (1939) (0)
Review: L. Susan Stebbing, A Modern Elementary Logic (1944) (0)
Evidence and Inference: The Hayden Colloquium on Scientific Concept and Method. (1960) (0)
The Debt We Owe to G. E. Moore (1960) (0)
Review: James A. Christenson., The If-Then Relation and Scientific Inference (1942) (0)
Review: M. Black, Comments on a Recent Version of Phenomenalism (1940) (0)
Lovejoy Arthur O.. On the criteria and limits of meaning. Philosophical essays in honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr., edited by Clarke F. P. and Nahm M. C., University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1942, pp. 3–23. (1943) (0)
Reid John R.. Definitional rules: their nature, status, and normative function. The journal of philosophy , vol. 40 (1943), pp. 188–192. (1943) (0)
Koopman B. O.. The bases of probability. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 46 (1940), pp. 763–774. (1941) (0)
Review: John R. Reid, Definitional Rules: Their Nature, Status, and Normative Function (1943) (0)
Physics, Psychology and Medicine . A methodological essay. J. H. Woodger. Cambridge University Press, London, 1956. 146 pp. $1.75. (1957) (0)
Creedy F.. Human nature writ large . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C., 1939, ii + 484 pp. (1941) (0)
Hans Reichenbach. Note on probability implication. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 47 (1941), pp. 265–267. (1941) (0)
Stebbing L. Susan. A modern elementary logic. Methuen & Co., London 1943, viii + 214 pp. (1944) (0)
Review: B. A. Bernstein, Remark on Nicod's Reduction of Principia Mathematica (1938) (0)
Review: Rudolf Carnap, The Two Concepts of Probability (1946) (0)
Operational Analysis as an Instrument for the Critique of Linguistic Signs (1942) (0)
McKinsey J. C. C.. A note on Reichenbach's axioms for probability implication. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 45 (1939), pp. 799–800. (1940) (0)
Poetry and Mathematics (0)
Review: Arthur H. Copeland, The Role of Observations in a Formal Theory of Probability (1940) (0)
Ushenko Andrew. Logical form and sensory structure. The philosophical review, vol. 50 (1941), pp. 615–622. (1942) (0)
Black Max. Critical thinking. An introduction to logic and scientific method . Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York 1946, xv + 402 pp. (1947) (0)
Review: Arthur O. Lovejoy, On the Criteria and Limits of Meaning (1943) (0)
Review: Arthur W. Burks, Peirce's Conception of Logic as a Normative Science (1943) (0)
Review: L. O. Kattsoff, J. Thibaut, Semiotic and Psychological Concepts (1942) (0)
Grelling Kurt and Oppenheim Paul. Logical analysis of “Gestalt” as “functional whole.” Ditto, 7 pp. (1939) (0)
Review: Harold Jeffreys, The Nature of Mathematics (1939) (0)
List of officers and members of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1951) (0)
Copilowish Irving M.. Border-line cases, vagueness, and ambiguity. Philosophy of science , vol. 6 (1939), pp. 181–195. (1939) (0)
LEYS, WAYNE A. R. Ethics for Policy Decisions: The Art of Asking Deliberative Questions. Pp. xiii, 428. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952. $4.75 (1952) (0)
Review: Dagobert D. Runes, The Dictionary of Philosophy (1942) (0)
Conversation on Santayana (1959) (0)
A. P. Ushenko. Class and number. Philosophy of science , vol. 8 (1941) pp. 338–351. (1941) (0)
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. By Feyerabend Paul. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J. and London: Humanities Press, 1975. Pp. 339. $16.50.) (1977) (0)
Four Letters on Ernest Nagel's Review of Lovejoy's "The Great Chain of Being" (1937) (0)
Review: Karl H. Niebyl, Modern Mathematics and Some Problems of Quantity, Quality, and Motion in Economic Analysis (1940) (0)
Review: Leonard J. Eslick, Grammatical and Logical Form (1941) (0)
Holmes Roger W.. Two jobs for the logician? The philosophical review, vol. 46 (1937), pp. 535–538. (1937) (0)
Wisdom J. O.. Positivism. Mind , n.s. vol. 54 (1945), pp. 65–70. (1945) (0)
Arthur W. Burks. Peirce's conception of logic as a normative science. The philosophical review , vol. 52 (1943), pp. 187–193. (1943) (0)
Review: Rudolf Carnap, Hall and Bergmann on Semantics (1945) (0)
Whence Scientific Knowledge (1988) (0)
C. West Churchman. On finite and infinite modal systems. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 3 (1938), pp. 77–82. (1938) (0)
Feibleman James. A reply to Bertrand Russell's introduction to the second edition of The principles of mathematics. The philosophy of Bertrand Russell, edited by Schilpp Paul Arthur, Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago 1944, pp. 155–174. (1944) (0)
Review: Janina Lindenbaum-Hosiasson, On Confirmation (1939) (0)
Lafleur Laurence J.. A functionalistic interpretation of mathematics. Scripta mathematica, vol. 8 (1941), pp. 27–33. (1941) (0)
Review: Hans Reichenbach, Note on Probability Implication (1941) (0)
An Example of a Successful Absolute Proof of Consistency (1978) (0)
The Ground of Induction (1947) (0)
Review: Carl G. Hempel, Vagueness and Logic (1939) (0)
The Systematic Codification of Formal Logic (1978) (0)
Northrop Eugene P.. Riddles in mathematics. A book of paradoxes. D. Van Nostrand Company, New York 1944, viii + 262 pp. (1945) (0)
William James, 1842-1910 (1942) (0)
Heinemann F. H.. The meaning of negation. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, n.s. vol. 44 (1943–1944), pp. 127–152. (1946) (0)
Review: Brand Blanshard, The Nature of Thought (1940) (0)
List of officers and members of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1985) (0)
Liberalism and intelligence (1957) (0)
Review: F. Creedy, Human Nature Writ Large (1941) (0)
K. R. Popper. Are contradictions embracing? Mind , n.s. vol. 52 (1943), pp. 47–50. (1943) (0)
H. M. Johnson. If-then relations in paralogies. Psychological review , vol. 51 (1944), pp. 69–75. (1944) (0)
Eslick Leonard J.. Grammatical and logical form. The new scholasticism, vol. 13 (1939), pp. 233–244. (1941) (0)
The Physical Significance of the Quantum Theory.@@@The Open World. (1934) (0)
Review: Paulette Fevrier, Sur la Causalite (1939) (0)
The Enjoyment of Mathematics . Selections from mathematics for the amateur. Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1957. 204 pp. Illus. $4.50. (1957) (0)
Review: H. M. Johnson, If-Then Relations in Paralogics (1944) (0)
Janina Lindenbaum-Hosiasson. On confirmation . Ditto, 5 pp. (1939) (0)
Review: Max Black, Conventionalism in Geometry and the Interpretation of Necessary Statements (1943) (0)
Carnap Rudolf. Hall and Bergmann on semantics. Mind, n. s. vol. 54 (1945), pp. 148–155. (1945) (0)
Carl G. Hempel. Vagueness and logic. Philosophy of science , vol. 6 (1939), pp. 163–180. (1939) (0)
Reviews. Everett W. Hall. The extra-linguistic reference of language. Mind , n.s. vol. 52 (1943), pp. 230–246, and n.s. vol. 53 (1944), pp. 25–47. (1944) (0)
The Main Stream of Mathematics. Edna E. Kramer. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1951. 321 pp. $5.00 (1951) (0)
Mr. Russell on Meaning and Truth (1941) (0)
Review: C. J. Ducasse, Truth, Verifiability, and Propositions about the Future (1941) (0)
VIVAS, ELISEO. The Moral Life and the Ethical Life. Pp. xix, 390. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. $6.00 (1951) (0)
Review: Laurence J. Lafleur, A Functionalistic Interpretation of Mathematics (1941) (0)
Barrett William. The present state of the problem of induction. Theoria , vol. 6 (1940), pp. 150–157. (1940) (0)
JAMES STREET FULTON. Science and Man's Hope. Pp. 179. New York: Bookman Associates for the Rice Institute, 1954. $3.25 (1955) (0)
The Problem of Consistency (1978) (0)
Review: Max Black, Russell's Philosophy of Language (1944) (0)
C. J. Ducasse. Truth, verifiability, and propositions about the future. Philosophy of science , vol. 8 (1941), pp. 329–337. (1941) (0)
Karl H. Niebyl. Modern mathematics and some problems of quantity, quality, and and motion in economic analysis. Philosophy of science , vol. 7 (1940), pp. 103–120. (1940) (0)
Review: Irving M. Copilowish, Border-line Cases, Vagueness, and Ambiguity (1939) (0)
Some Realistic Implications of Operationalism (1939) (0)
Observation and Theory in Science [by] Ernest Nagel, Sylvain Bromberger [and] Adolf Grünbaum. With an Introd. By Stephen F. Barker (1971) (0)
Review: E. Toms, The Principles of Implication (1943) (0)
Absolute Proofs of Consistency (1978) (0)
Alice Ambrose. Self-contradictory suppositions. Mind , n.s. vol. 53 (1944), pp. 48–59. (1944) (0)
Review: B. O. Koopman, The Bases of Probability (1941) (0)
Review: Roger W. Holmes, Two Jobs for the Logician? (1937) (0)
National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoir Copyright 1994 national academy of sciences (0)
Review: A. P. Ushenko, Class and Number (1941) (0)
From Euclid to Eddington: A Study of Conceptions of the External World . (The Tarner Lectures, 1947.) Edmund Whittaker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1949. Pp. ix+212. $4.00. (1949) (0)

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