Adolf Grünbaum

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Adolf Grünbaum (born 1923, in Cologne, Germany) is a philosopher of science.

Grünbaum studied physics and philosophy at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, was a Selfridge professor at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, (1956 to 1960) and became professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1960, and later professor of the history and philosophy of science, both of which he retained until resigning from the Philosophy Department in 2003. He received the Lakatos Award and has been a strong critic of psychoanalysis.

In the 1960s Grünbaum founded the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Pitt, and the Center for Philosophy of Science, and is considered largely responsible for building what is generally considered a very strong Philosophy Department there—in part by hiring several members of Yale's philosophy department who left in response to internal tensions. During this period the University hired Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, Nuel Belnap, and Alan Ross Anderson, among others. He is the senior Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science, Chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science, and Research Professor of Psychiatry all at the University of Pittsburgh.

[edit] Works

He is the author of over 370 articles as well as books on space-time and the critique of psychoanalysis, which include:

Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes (second edition, 1968)
Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (second edition, 1973)
The Foundations of Psychoanalysis. Berkeley: University of California Press (1984)
Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, (1993)

His offices include presidencies of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), the Philosophy of Science Association (two terms), and most recently (2006-2007) of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.