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118Relativity and the Atomicity of BecomingReview of Metaphysics 4 (2). 1950.The scientific conception of change and motion raises two fundamental questions: Is there any evidence that the temporal order of events cannot legitimately be postulated to be continuous in Cantor's sense? Is it possible to account for such distinguishing properties of time as its possession of an "arrow" on the basis of assuming that events constitute a continuous type of order in Cantor's sense, and providing a coordinating definition for the ordering relation "later than"? We must raise thes…Read more
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53Wesley Salmon’s Intellectual Odyssey and AchievementsPhilosophy of Science 71 (5): 922-925. 2004.Opening Remarks of the Chairman at “Wesley C. Salmon, 1925–2001”: A Symposium Honoring his Contributions to the Philosophy of Science.
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113Discussions: Thb falsifiability op the lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesisBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (37): 48-50. 1959.
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Why Thematic Kinships between Events Do Not Attest their Causal Linkage in An Intimate Relation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of ScienceBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116 477-494. 1989.
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2Modern Science and the Refutation of the Paradoxes of ZenoIn Wesley Charles Salmon (ed.), Zeno’s Paradoxes, Bobbs-merrill. pp. 164--175. 1970.
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7Psychological IssuesInternational Universities Press. 1959."Well over one half of this brilliant new Monograph constitutes a major sequel to Professor Grunbaum's highly influential 1984 book The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, which was labeled "magisterial" by Frank J. Sulloway, and "the most important book ever written on Freud's status as a scientist" by J. Allan Hobson. The importance of the present Monograph lies in the extent to which the author now goes beyond that earlier volume to offer new original ideas on fundamental…Read more
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110Can a theory answer more questions than one of its rivals?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (1): 1-23. 1986.
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91"Some Comments on William Craig's" Creation and Big Bang Cosmology"Philosophia Naturalis 31 (2): 225-236. 1994.
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73Is there backward causation in classical electrodynamics?Journal of Philosophy 74 (8): 475-482. 1977.
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442Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical CosmologyPhilo 1 (1): 15-34. 1998.In earlier writings, I argued that neither of the two major physical cosmologies of the twentieth 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…Read more
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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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345Is Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory Pseudo-Scientific by Karl Popper's Criterion of Demarcation?American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (2). 1979.
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61The falsifiability of the lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesisBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (37): 48-50. 1959.
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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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2Motivation and Explanation: An Essay on Freud's Philosophy of ScienceNigel MackayIsis 83 (1): 175-176. 1992.
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48Freud's Theory: The Perspective of a Philosopher of ScienceProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 57 (1). 1983.With respect to the reproach by habermas and ricoeur that freud will fall prey to a "scientistic self-misunderstanding" i submit that it was not freud, but these hermeneuticians themselves, who forced the clinical theory of psychoanalysis onto the procrustean bed of a philosophical ideology demonstrably alien to it. as against the generic "disavowal" of causal attributions advocated by some hermeneuticians, i maintain that it is a nihilistic, if not frivolous, trivialization of freud's entire cl…Read more
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19Some Highlights of Modern Cosmology and CosmogonyReview of Metaphysics 5 (3). 1952.One of the more important cosmological consequences of Einstein's general theory of relativity is the hypothesis that our universe may either expand or contract with time. Relativistic cosmogony is concerned with those phases of this process which belong to the past. We begin with a digest of cosmogonic developments.
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115Comments on Professor Roger Buck's Paper "Reflexive Predictions."Philosophy of Science 30 (4). 1963.Professor Buck has given an illuminating account of the logical status of reflexive predictions in the social sciences. He tells us that the classification of a prediction as reflexive is predicated on a tacit distinction between the “normal” and the “abnormal” or perturbed conditions under which it is made. This seems to me to be a perceptive and sound circumscription of the class of reflexive predictions as encountered in the social sciences. He goes on to show helpfully how the social scienti…Read more
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111Does Freudian theory resolve "the paradoxes of irrationality"?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 129-143. 2001.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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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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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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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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79The philosophical retention of absolute space in Einstein's general theory of relativityPhilosophical Review 66 (4): 525-534. 1957.
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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.
Adolf Grunbaum
(1923 - 2018)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |