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Grünbaum, Adolf was born on May 15, 1923 in Cologne, Germany. Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Benjamin and Hannah (Freiwillig) Grünbaum.
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It is ten years since Adolf Griinbaum published the first edition of this book. It was promptly recognized to be one of the few major works in the philosophy of the natural sciences of this generation. In part, this is so because Griinbaum has chosen a problem basic both to philosophy and to the natural sciences - the nature of space and time; and in part, this is so because he so admirably exemplifies that Aristotelian devotion to the intimate and mutual dependence of actual science and philosophical understanding. More than this, however, the quality of his work derives from his achievement in combining detail with scope. The problems of space and time have been among the most difficult in contemporary and classical thought, and Griinbaum has been responsible to the full depth and complexity of these difficulties. This revised and enlarged second edition is a work in progress, in the tradition of reflective analysis of modern science of such figures as Ehrenfest and Reichenbach. In publishing this work among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we hope to contribute to and encourage that broad tradition of natural philosophy which is marked by the close collaboration of philoso phers and scientists. To this end, we have published the proceedings of our Colloquia, of meetings and conferences here and abroad, as well as the works of single authors.
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Geometry and Chronometry in Philosophical Perspective was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this volume Professor Grünbaum substantially extends and comments upon his essay "Geometry, Chronometry, and Empiricism," which was first published in Volume III of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Commenting on the essay when it first appeared J. J. C. Smart wrote in Mind (England): "In my opinion Adolf Grünbaum's paper ... supersedes nearly all that has been written on the logical status of physical geometry and chronometry." The full text of the essay is given here with the author's extension of it and his discussion of some of the critical comment it has evoked, particularly, a critique published by Hilary Putnam. Adolph Grünbaum is Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the current president of the Philosophy of Science Association.
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This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment setting are themselves epistemically quite suspect.
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Grünbaum, Adolf was born on May 15, 1923 in Cologne, Germany. Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Benjamin and Hannah (Freiwillig) Grünbaum.
Bachelor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1943. Master of Science in Physics, Yale University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, Yale University, 1951.
Doctor Honoris Causa, University Konstanz.
Member faculty Lehigh University, 1950-1960, professor philosophy, 1955-1956, Selfridge professor philosophy, 1956-1960. Visiting research professor Minnesota Center Philosophy of Science, 1956, 59. Andrew Mellon professor philosophy of science University Pittsburgh, since 1960, research professor psychiatry, 1979—2007, director Center Philosophy of Science, 1960-1978, chairman center philosophy of science, primary research professor department history and philosophy of science, since 2007.
Chairman section philosophy of physical science International Congress for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Jerusalem, Israel, 1964, Bucharest, Rumania, 1971, Salzburg, Austria, 1983. Physicist division war research Columbia University, World World War II. Werner Heisenberg lecturer Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1985.
Gifford lecturer, Scotland, 1985. Visiting Mellon professor California Institute of Technology, 1990. Leibniz lecturer University Hannover, Germany, 2003.
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Author: Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 1963, second edition, 1973, Russian edition, 1969, Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes, 2d edition, 1968, Geometry and Chronometry in Philosophical Perspective, 1968, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, 1984, German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Japanese editions, 1988, Polish edition, 2004, Psicoanalisi: Obiezioni E Risposte, 1988, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, 1993, La Psychanalyse à L'Épreuve, 1993. Also numerous articles. Member editorial board: Encyclopedia Philosophy.
Board editors Philosophy Science, American Philosophical Quarterly, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, The Philosopher's Index. Co-editor Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science. Associate editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Served with M.I.S. United States Army, 1944-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president section L 1963). Member Academy International de Philosophie des Sciences, British Society Philosophy Science, American Philosophical Association (president Eastern division 1982-1983), Philosophy of Science Association (president 1965-1970), American Academy Arts and Sciences, International Academy Humanism (laureate 1985), International Union History and Philosophy Science (president division logic, methodology and philosophy of science 2004-2005, president union 2006^), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Thelma Braverman, June 26, 1949. 1 child, Barbara Susan.