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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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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
Adolf Grunbaum
(1923 - 2018)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |