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37The Clock Paradox in the Special Theory of RelativityPhilosophy of Science 21 (3). 1954.1. Introduction. The germ of the clock paradox was contained in Einstein's fundamental paper on the special theory of relativity, where he declares that the retardation of a moving clock “still holds good if the clock moves from A to B in any polygonal line, and also when the points A and B coincide.” This remark soon gave rise to a criticism which was to play a prominent role in the discussions of the consistency of the theory of relativity. It was charged that this theory allows the paradoxica…Read more
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37Some remarks on professor Ushenko's interpretation of causal lawJournal of Philosophy 50 (4): 115-120. 1953.
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37Empirical evaluations of theoretical explanations of psychotherapeutic efficacy: A reply to John D. GreenwoodPhilosophy of Science 63 (4): 622-641. 1996.Using Grunbaum 1984 and 1993 as a springboard, Greenwood (this issue) claims to have offered several methodologically salubrious and exegetically illuminating theses on empirical evaluations of theoretical explanations of psychotherapeutic efficacy. According to his exegesis of Grunbaum's construction (1984, Ch. 2, Section C; 1993, 184-204) of Freud's "Tally Argument," that argument bespeaks a rife neglect of the epistemologically-significant distinction between empirical evaluations of the effi…Read more
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36Does Freudian Theory Resolve “The Paradoxes of Irrationality”?The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 9 203-218. 2000.In this paper, I criticize the claim made by Donald Davidson, among others, that Freud’s psychoanalytic theory provides “a conceptual framework within which to describe and understand irrationality.” Further, I defend my epistemological strictures on the explanatory and therapeutic foundations of the psychoanalytic enterprise against the efforts of Davidson, Marcia Cavell, Thomas Nagel, et al., to undermine them.
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35Wesley C. Salmon, 1925-2001Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 75 (2). 2001.
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33The falsihability of the lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis: A rejoinder to professor DingleBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 11 (42): 143-145. 1960.
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31Why I am afraid of absolute spaceAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 49 (1): 96. 1971.This Article does not have an abstract
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31The Role Of The Case Study Method In The Foundations Of PsychoanalysisCanadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (December): 623-658. 1988.In my 1984 book on The Foundations of Psychoanalysis, I addressed two main questions: Are the analyst’s observations in the clinical setting reliable as ‘data,’ and if so, can they actually support the major hypotheses of the theory of repression or psychic conflict, which is the cornerstone of the psychoanalytic edifice, as we know? In the book, I argued for giving a negative answer to both of these questions. Clearly, if the evidence from the couch is unreliable from the outset, then this defe…Read more
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30Remarks on Miller's Review of Philosophical Problems of Space and TimeIsis 68 (3): 447-450. 1977.
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30The relevance of philosophy to the history of the special theory of relativityJournal of Philosophy 59 (21): 561-574. 1962.
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30»«Does Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason License His Primordial Existential Question» Why Is There Something Condngent, Rather Than Nothing?«?In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens Und Homo Faber, De Gruyter. pp. 147. 2005.
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30Relativity, Causality and Weiss's Theory of RelationsReview of Metaphysics 7 (1). 1953.MR. WEISS'S recent article "The Contemporary World" is an attempt to outline nothing short of a general theory of the logic and ontology of relations. The theory of relativity avowedly has a far more narrow scope. The issue raised by Mr. Weiss's critique of the theory of relativity is therefore not whether that theory is an adequate general metaphysics of relations. What is at issue, however, is the philosophical adequacy of the relativistic assertions concerning the distinctly temporal and caus…Read more
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29Atheismus, Induktivismus und Freud oder: die Vertreibung eines Kölschen JungenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (3): 473-497. 1994.
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28Popper's Fundamental Misdiagnosis of the Scientific Defects of Freudian PsychoanalysisIn Zuzana Parusniková & R. S. Cohen (eds.), Rethinking Popper, Springer. pp. 117--134. 2009.
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25The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical CritiqueUniversity of California Press. 1984.This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment …Read more
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24The rotating disk: Reply to Grøn (review)Foundations of Physics 10 (5-6): 495-498. 1980.It is argued that Grøn's criticism of our treatment of the rotating disk in special relativity is incorrect: Our results pertain to an acceleration program different from his but physically no less legitimate
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24Remarks concerning Moon and Spencer's "On the Establishment of a Universal Time"Philosophy of Science 24 (1). 1957.Moon and Spencer maintain that there is a divergence between Einstein's analysis of simultaneity, as set forth in his fundamental paper on relativity of 1905, and my treatment of that concept in a recent publication. They write: “Einstein decided that simultaneity is meaningless in all cases of relative motion. … Grünbaum decided that even Einstein's restriction is not sufficiently stringent and that simultaneity is a questionable concept even with stationary observers. … Grünbaum rejects Postul…Read more
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22Etiology and theory in psychoanalytic theoryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4): 729-732. 1991.
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22A New Critique Of Freud’s Theory Of DreamsVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 1 169-191. 1993.Vienna was the birthplace of the world-renowned Circle that bears its name as well as of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories. For that reason alone, it is of interest to inquire into the philosophical relations between logical empiricism and Freudian psychoanalysis as construed by their advocates. Relatedly, it is of sociocultural significance to understand the intellectual and personal interactions between the representatives of these two highly influential systems of ideas
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21Theological misinterpretations of current physical cosmologyFoundations of Physics 26 (4): 523-543. 1996.In earlier writings, I argued that neither of the two major physical cosmologies of the 20th century support divine creation, so that atheism has nothing to fear from the explanations required by these cosmologies. Yet theists ranging from Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, and Leibniz to Richard Swinburne and Philip Quinn have maintained that, at every instant anew, the existence of the world requires divine creation ex nihilo as its cause. Indeed, according to some such theists, for any given mome…Read more
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21Can a Theory Answer more Questions than one of its Rivals?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (1): 1-23. 1976.
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20Poincaré's thesis that any and all stellar parallax findings are compatible with the Euclideanism of the pertinent astronomical 3-spaceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 9 (4): 313-318. 1978.
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20The denial of absolute space and the hypothesis of a universal noctural expansion: A rejoinder to George SchlesingerAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 45 (1). 1967.This Article does not have an abstract
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20E. A. Milne's scales of timeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4 (16): 329-331. 1953.
Adolf Grunbaum
(1923 - 2018)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |