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Robert D. Nagle PhD

Phoenix, Arizona

1935 - 2016

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Nagle, Robert D. PhD passed away on January 26, 2016 at home. He was born to Carl and Sarah Nagle in Gowanda, New York on September 13, 1935 and is survived by his wife, Laurel Retay-Nagle, DO, son Carl (Sheila), daughters Sonya Beauchamp and Paula (Michael) Birchmier, seven...

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I love you dear father. I find it hard to muddle on without you in this world. You are and forever will be MY UNICORN! Paulina

With our affection and deepest condolences for the Nagle family ♥
Jim & Christie Pulse

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Bob Nagle was the first truly original thinker maybe the first truly original person in my life. As a student in his classroom, I learned to ask questions I would never have thought to ask, and to use the answers to see the world in ways I otherwise never could have. He welcomed me, and many others, into a perpetual salon he and Jean conducted in their home for their students, for friends, for acquaintances, for anyone curious enough and interested enough to take part, at all hours of the...

Bob was an inspirational person. The smartest man and the kindest. With love and affection. ~Liliana Guerra

He was no doubt the smartest man I have ever met. It was a pleasure knowing him....Lance, Jill and Melissa Patterson

My sympathies to Bob's family. Bob was a great philosophy teacher at NWMSU. I had him for Intro to Philosophy, Ethics, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, and Phenomenology. I have been a public school superintendent for over twenty years which can be a pragmatic and literal task. Bob taught me to think laterally, and apply reflection on perspectives other than just my own. This has helped me throughout my career and I attribute a lot of this to Bob. I also teach philosophy through a...