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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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La volonté de faire science, à propos de la psychanalyse, coll. « Les empêcheurs de penser en rond »Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 183 (4): 761-765. 1993.
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81Précis of The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical CritiqueBehavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (2): 217-228. 1986.This book critically examines Freud's own detailed arguments for his major explanatory and therapeutic principles, the current neorevisionist versions of psychoanalysis, and the hermeneuticists' reconstruction of Freud's theory and therapy as an alternative to what they claim was a “scientistic” misconstrual of the psychoanalytic enterprise. The clinical case for Freud's cornerstone theory of repression – the claim that psychic conflict plays a causal role in producing neuroses, dreams, and bung…Read more
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134Whitehead's method of extensive abstractionBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4 (15): 215-226. 1953.
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122David Malament and the Conventionality of Simultaneity: A Reply (review)Foundations of Physics 40 (9-10): 1285-1297. 2001.In 1977, David Malament proved the valuable technical result that the simultaneity relation of standard synchrony $\epsilon=\frac{1}{2}$ with respect to an inertial observer O is uniquely definable in terms of the relation κ of causal connectibility. And he claimed that this definability undermines my own version of the conventionality of metrical simultaneity within an inertial frame.But Malament’s proof depends on the imposition of several supposedly “innocuous” constraints on any candidate fo…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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126Can an infinitude of operations be performed in a finite time?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20 (3): 203-218. 1969.
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195Is Psychoanalysis a Pseudo-Science? Karl Popper versus Sigmund FreudZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 31 (3). 1977.
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39Comments on Mr. Ushenko's ThesesReview of Metaphysics 6 (3). 1953.2. In the first place, the term "power" is used to refer to processes which are held to go on at particular times, and to be accessible to direct experience. It is not clear to me why our experiences of activity are not "explicit", or why they are not to be regarded as manifested to the senses ; but possibly these assertions could be defended on the ground that the experiences in question are phenomenologically distinctive in some way.
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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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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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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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8Is psychoanalysis viable?In William T. O'Donohue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The Philosophy of Psychology, Sage Publications. pp. 281. 1996.
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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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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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15Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes.Geometry and Chronometry in Philosophical PerspectivePhilosophical Quarterly 20 (80): 296. 1970.
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156Psychoanalysis 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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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.
Adolf Grunbaum
(1923 - 2018)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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