Psychoanalytic Theory and Science
Grünbaum’s series of lectures were never published but will be included in the third volume of his collected works by Oxford University Press.
Adolf Grünbaum
Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Adolf Grünbaum was born on 15 May 1923 in Cologne, Germany. A philosopher of science, he was ‘the foremost thinker about the subtleties of space and time’ according to Jim Holt of the NYTimes. After emigrating to the US in 1944, he served in the US Army until 1946. Lecturer at Lehigh University in 1950, he was promoted to Selfridge Professor of Philosophy. He became the Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1960, retiring in 2003. During that time, he founded The Center for Philosophy of Science.
President of the American Philosophical Association, he was also Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the US Scientist Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1985, and the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale in 1990. Notable works include Modern Science and Zeno’s Paradoxes (1968), Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (1973), The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (1984), and Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (1993).
