Adolf Grünbaum

Adolf Grünbaum ( born May 15, 1923 in Cologne) is an American philosopher and philosopher of science.

Life

Adolf Grünbaum studied physics and philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

From 1956 to 1960 he was Selfridge professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and from 1960 professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. There he founded a center for science theory and wrote papers on physical cosmology, and various topics related to science. He made fundamental contributions to the philosophy of space and time, especially for spatial and temporal congruence.

The University of Konstanz has given him in the Department of Philosophy honorary doctorate.

In the fall of 2013 Adolf Grünbaum receives the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Works

• Collected Works, Volume 1 (ed. by Thomas Kupka ): Scientific Rationality, the Human Condition, and 20th Century Cosmologies, Oxford University Press 2013 volume 2. The Philosophy of Space & Time (ed. by Thomas Kupka ) appears in the Winter 2013 / 14; Volume 3: Lectures on Psychoanalysis (ed. by Thomas Kupka & Leanne Long Will), (both also OUP ) will appear in the summer of 2014.
• Adolf Grünbaum: The Foundations of Psychoanalysis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984; German: The Fundamentals of psychoanalysis. A philosophical critique. Stuttgart: Reclam 1988
• Philosophical Problems of Space and Time ( second edition, 1973),
• Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes ( second edition, 1968),
• Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, 1993
• La mia odissea dalla alla filosofia Psychoanalysis, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2001