Morris Raphael Cohen and Ernest Nagel

The article reproduced here, "Morris Cohen in Retrospect," written ten years after Cohen's death, places Cohen within the American scene as a philosopher. The author, Ernest Nagel, states these reflections as one who
was closely associated with Cohen for a number of years, first as one of his best students, then joining the philosophy department as a junior colleague following graduation in 1923 and remaining with the department until 1938, the same year that Cohen retired from teaching at City College.

Cohen and Nagel co-authored a text for their City College philosophy students, An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method (note the title page). When Cohen was on leave during the 1933-1934 academic year Nagel taught the classes normally assigned to Cohen. Some years later Nagel co-edited the volume of scholarly essays, Freedom and Reason: Studies in Philosophy and Jewish Culture, published in 1951. These essays consider Cohen's philosophical methods and principles within Western and Jewish tradition.