Adolf Grünbaum
Adolf Grünbaum | |
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| Born | May 15, 1923 |
| Died | November 15, 2018 (aged 95) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Philosophy of Continuity: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Metrical Continuum of Physical Events in the Light of Contemporary Mathematical Conceptions (1951) |
| Doctoral advisors | Carl Gustav Hempel |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Doctoral students | Bas van Fraassen |
| Main interests | Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of psychoanalysis |
| Notable ideas | Mind-dependence of temporal becoming |
Adolf Grünbaum (/ˈɡruːnbɔːm/; German: [ˈɡʁyːnbaʊm]; May 15, 1923 – November 15, 2018) was a German-American philosopher of science and a critic of both psychoanalysis and Karl Popper's philosophy of science. He was the first Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1960 until his death, and also served as co-chairman of its Center for Philosophy of Science (from 1978), research professor of psychiatry (from 1979), and primary research professor in the department of history and philosophy of science (from 2006). His works include Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (1963), The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (1984), and Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis (1993).