Adolf Grunbaum

Dados Biográficos

ID498398
NOMEAdolf Grunbaum
PRENOMESAdolf
SOBRENOMEGrunbaum
ASSINATURAGRUNBAUM A
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Pittsburgh
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES127
TOTAL COMO AUTOR58
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1948
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ÍNDICE H7

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    Adolf GrunbaumCHAPTERNineteenth-Century Philosophy of…2014

    Karl Marx (1818–1883) was born in Trèves in the Rhineland. He studied law in Bonn, philosophy and history in Berlin, and received a doctorate from the University of Jena for a thesis on Epicurus (341–270 BC). (Epicurus' philosophy was a reaction against the ‘other-worldliness’ of Plato's theory of Forms. Whereas for Plato knowledge was of intelligible Forms, and the criterion of the truth of a hypothesis about the definition of a Form was that it…

  • The History of Western Philosophy of Religion

    Open AccessDouglas Hedley, Chris Ryan et al.BOOKThe History of Western Philosophy…2009

    An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together to provide authoritative exposition of how history s most important philosophical thinkers from antiquity to the present day- have sought to analyse the concepts and tenets central to Western religious belief, especially Christianity. Volume 4 comprises an introduction, presenting an overview of Nineteenth-Century philosophy of religion, and a series of essays on Ninetee…

  • Popper's fundamental misdiagnosis of the scientific defects of Freudian psychoanalysis and of their bearing on the theory of demarcation

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2008

  • The reception of my Freud-critique in the psychoanalytic literature

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2007

  • Is Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic edifice relevant to the 21st century

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2006

    To warrant the relevance, if any, of Freud’s psychoanalytic edifice to the 21st century, its supporters must endeavor, if at all possible, to find genuine evidence for its major pillars or to modify them significantly in response to emerging new evidence. Such a quest must begin with a clear understanding of the range and depth of the failure of Freud’s cardinal clinical arguments. I endeavor below to provide such comprehension by laying bare the…

  • Rejoinder to Richard Swinburne's ‘Second Reply to Grünbaum’

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2005Referências: 3

  • Wesley Salmon's Intellectual Odyssey and Achievements

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2004

    Opening Remarks of the Chairman at “Wesley C. Salmon, 1925–2001”: A Symposium Honoring his Contributions to the Philosophy of Science

  • The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2004Citada por: 2Referências: 7

    Philosophers have postulated the existence of God to explain (I) why any contingent objects exist at all rather than nothing contingent, and (II) why the fundamental laws of nature and basic facts of the world are exactly what they are. Therefore, we ask: (a) Does (I) pose a well-conceived question which calls for an answer? and (b) Can God's presumed will (or intention) provide a cogent explanation of the basic laws and facts of the world, as cl…

  • A Century of Psychoanalysis

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEInternational Forum of…2001

    At the end of the first century of psychoanalytic theory and therapy, this paper takes critical stock of its past performance as a theory of human nature, and as a therapy. An account of the distinction between the dynamic and cognitive species of unconscious is followed by a critique of Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis, as well as by an unfavorable verdict on the reconstruction of psychoanalysis by the ?hermeneutic? philosophers. Conclu…

  • A Century of Psychoanalysis

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEInternational Forum of…2001

    At the end of the first century of psychoanalytic theory and therapy, this paper takes critical stock of its past performance as a theory of human nature, and as a therapy. An account of the distinction between the dynamic and cognitive species of unconscious is followed by a critique of Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis, as well as by an unfavorable verdict on the reconstruction of psychoanalysis by the ?hermeneutic? philosophers. Conclu…

  • "Does Freudian Theory Resolve "The Paradoxes of Irrationality

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2001

  • Does Freudian Theory Resolve “The Paradoxes of Irrationality”

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2001Referências: 1

    This paper consists of two related parts: I. A detailed critique of Donald Davidson's thesis—in his “The Paradoxes of Irrationality”—that “...any satisfactory [explanatory] view [of irrationality] must embrace some of Freud's most important theses” (p. 290). I argue that this conclusion is doubly flawed: (i) Davidson's case for it is logically ill‐founded , and (ii) its Freudian plaidoyer is also factually false. II. Relatedly, in the second part…

  • Empirical Evaluations of Theoretical Explanations of Psychotherapeutic Efficacy

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1996

    Using Grünbaum 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 Grünbaum'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 dis…

  • A brief appraisal of Freud's dream theory

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEDreaming1994Citada por: 1

  • Narlikar's “Creation” of the Big Bang Universe was a Mere Origination

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1993Referências: 5

    In Grünbaum (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 conserv…

  • Motivation and Explanation

    Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEIsis1992

  • Meaning” Connections and Causal Connections in the Human Sciences

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEJournal of the American…1990Citada por: 4Referências: 3

    In much of psychoanalytic theory and therapy, Freud repeatedly inferred a causal connection between thematically kindred events by relying on the kinship between their thematic contents. This paper strongly endorses his search for causal explanations. But it argues in detail that (1) his causal inferences from thematic connections rest on an important fallacy, which undermines major etiologic conclusions in psychoanalysis; (2) a related, weighty …

  • In Fairness to Freud

    David Sachs, Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1989

  • The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1989Citada por: 4Referências: 10

    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 d…

  • The Foundations of Psychoanalysis

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEJournal of the American…1988

  • The Foundations of Psychoanalysis

    Alessandro Pagnini, Adolf GrunbaumARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1987

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique. By Adolf Grunbaum. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 310. Price £13.95, pb £8.50.) Alessandro Pagnini Alessandro Pagnini University of Florence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 100–104, https://doi.org/10.2307/222…

  • Retrocausation and the Formal Assimilation of Classical Electrodynamics to Newtonian Mechanics

    Open AccessAdolf Grunbaum, Allen I JanisARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1979

    Dirac's classical electrodynamics countenances “preaccelerations” of charged particles at a time t as mathematical functions of external forces applied after the time t. These preaccelerations have been interpreted as evidence for physical retrocausation upon assuming that, in electrodynamics no less than in Newton's second law, external forces sustain an asymmetric causal relation to accelerations. And this retrocausal interpretation has just be…

  • Poincaré's thesis that any and all stellar parallax findings are compatible with the Euclideanism of the pertinent astronomical 3-space

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…1978Referências: 1

  • Remarks on Miller's Review of Philosophical Problems of Space and Time

    Adolf Grunbaum, Arthur I MillerARTICLEIsis1977

  • Is Preacceleration of Particles in Dirac's Electrodynamics a Case of Backward Causation? The Myth of Retrocausation in Classical Electrodynamics

    Open AccessAdolf GrunbaumARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1976Citada por: 4Referências: 4

    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) t…