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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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43Is Object Relations Theory Better Founded than Orthodox Psychoanalysis?Journal of Philosophy 80 (1): 46-51. 1983.
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169Is Simplicity Evidence of Truth?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 61 261-275. 2007.In a short 1997 book entitled Simplicity as Evidence of Truth, the Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne has put forward the following thesis summarily: ‘… for theories (of equal scope) rendering equally probable our observational data (which, for brevity I shall call equally good at “predicting”), fitting equally well with background knowledge, the simplest is most probably true’.
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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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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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30Atheismus, Induktivismus und Freud oder: die Vertreibung eines Kölschen JungenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (3): 473-497. 1994.
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108Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of RelativityPhilosophy of Science 36 (1). 1969.Ellis and Bowman's account of nonstandard signal synchronizations is examined as a prolegomenon to this paper. Attention is called to some consequences of an important ambiguity in their account of the transitivity of nonstandard synchrony. Then an analysis is given of the principle of relativity to assess E & B's claim that this principle either restricts nonstandard signal synchronisms or rules them out altogether. It is argued that the latitude for choices of nonstandard synchronisms is not c…Read more
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9Is psychoanalysis viable?In William T. O'Donohue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The Philosophy of Psychology, Sage Publications. pp. 281. 1996.
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44Is a universal nocturnal expansion falsifiable or physically vacuous?Philosophical Studies 15 (5). 1964.
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59The Degeneration of Popper's Theory of DemarcationIn Fred D'Agostino & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Epistemologia, Reidel. pp. 141--161. 1989.
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1Zeno's Metrical Paradox of ExtensionIn Wesley Charles Salmon (ed.), Zeno’s Paradoxes, Bobbs-merrill. pp. 176--199. 1970.
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22Etiology and theory in psychoanalytic theoryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4): 729-732. 1991.
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1Collected Works, Volume II: Philosophy of Physics, Time, and Space (edited book)Oxford University of Press. forthcoming.
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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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11Critique of Freud's Notion of Mental IllnessIn Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka & Evandro Agazzi (eds.), Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness Within the Human Condition, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 57--70. 2001.
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15Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes.Geometry and Chronometry in Philosophical PerspectivePhilosophical Quarterly 20 (80): 296. 1970.
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157Psychoanalysis and TheismThe Monist 70 (2): 152-192. 1987.The topic of “Psychoanalysis and Theism” suggests two distinct questions. First, what is the import, if any, of psychoanalytic theory for the truth or falsity of theism? And furthermore, what was the attitude of Freud, the man, toward belief in God? It must be borne in mind that psychological explanations of any sort as to why people believe in God are subject to an important caveat. Even if they are true, such explanations are not entitled to beg the following different question: Is religious b…Read more
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La creazione nella cosmologia fisica: uno pseudo-problema o una verità superiore?Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 8 (4): 13-23. 1990.
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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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350The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical CosmologyPhilosophy of Science 56 (3). 1989.According to some cosmologists, the big bang cosmogony and even the (now largely defunct) steady-state theory pose a scientifically insoluble problem of matter-energy creation. But I argue that the genuine problem of the origin of matter-energy or of the universe has been fallaciously transmuted into the pseudo-problem of creation by an external cause. A fortiori, it emerges that the initial "true" and "false" vacuum states of quantum cosmology do not vindicate biblical divine creation ex nihilo…Read more
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91Is falsifiability the touchstone of scientific rationality? Karl Popper versus inductivismIn R. S. Cohen, P. K. Feyerabend & M. Wartofsky (eds.), Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos, Reidel. pp. 213--252. 1976.
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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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274Epistemological liabilities of the clinical appraisal of psychoanalytic theoryNoûs 14 (3): 307-385. 1980.
Adolf Grunbaum
(1923 - 2018)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |