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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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The genesis of the special theory of relativityIn H. Feigl & G. Maxwell (eds.), Current Issues in the Philosophy of Science, New York. pp. 43--53. 1961.
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69Discussion: The Structure of Science (review)Philosophy of Science 29 (3). 1962.Ernest Nagel's illuminating treatise on the logic of scientific explanation ranges over an impressive number of major issues in the philosophy of science. Beginning with an account of various kinds of explanations, the author devotes several chapters to the logical features of scientific laws and to the epistem logical status of theories. He then turns to problems posed by the structure of explanations in various special areas of the physical, biological and social sciences: Newtonian mechanics,…Read more
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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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263Is preacceleration of particles in dirac's electrodynamics a case of backward causation? The myth of retrocausation in classical electrodynamicsPhilosophy of Science 43 (2): 165-201. 1976.Is it a "conceptual truth" or only a logically contingent fact that, in any given kind of case, an event x which asymmetrically causes ("produces") an event y likewise temporally precedes y or at least does not temporally succeed y? A bona fide physical example in which the cause retroproduces the effect would show that backward causation is no less conceptually possible than forward causation. And it has been claimed ([9], p. 151; [4], p. 41) that in Dirac's classical electrodynamics (relativis…Read more
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178Historical determinism, social activism, and predictions in the social sciencesBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 7 (27): 236-240. 1956.
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20E. A. Milne's scales of timeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4 (16): 329-331. 1953.
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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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35Wesley C. Salmon, 1925-2001Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 75 (2). 2001.
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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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2Observation and Theory in Science. With an Introduction by Stephen F. BarkerThe Johns Hopkins Press. 1971.
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10Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes of MotionIn Wesley Charles Salmon (ed.), Zeno’s Paradoxes, Bobbs-merrill. pp. 200--250. 1970.
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17A New Critique Of Theological Interpretations Of Physical CosmologyVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 8 269-288. 2001.This paper is a sequel to my “Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology”. It draws on portions of my earlier but goes beyond it and modifies the overlapping portions.
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The Degeneration of Popper's Theory of Demarcation in Freedom and Rationality. Essays in Honor of John WatkinsBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 117 141-161. 1989.
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205Is the method of bold conjectures and attempted refutations justifiably the method of science?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (2): 105-136. 1976.
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101The Duhemian ArgumentPhilosophy of Science 27 (1). 1960.This paper offers a refutation of P. Duhem's thesis that the falsifiability of an isolated empirical hypothesis H as an explanans is unavoidably inconclusive. Its central contentions are the following: 1. No general features of the logic of falsifiability can assure, for every isolated empirical hypothesis H and independently of the domain to which it pertains, that H can always be preserved as an explanans of any empirical findings O whatever by some modification of the auxiliary assumptions A …Read more
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56Narlikar's "creation" of the big Bang universe was a mere originationPhilosophy of Science 60 (4): 638-646. 1993.In Grunbaum (1989, 374, 390), I objected to Narlikar's (1977, 136-137) designation "event of 'creation'" for a supposed first cosmic instant t = 0, which he imports into the big bang cosmology of the general theory of relativity (GTR). Narlikar (1992, 361-362) does reject a theological construal of the "creation". But, endeavoring to justify his secular creationism, he now points out that, in the GTR, the usual derivation of matter-energy conservation from Hilbert's stationary action principle c…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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134Whitehead's method of extensive abstractionBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4 (15): 215-226. 1953.
Adolf Grunbaum
(1923 - 2018)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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