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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."
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."
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how
relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings
of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's
writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to
attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with
an essay by Adolf Grunbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers
of science and an incisive critic of Freud's work. Grunbaum looks
at Freud's general claims about the psychological mechanisms
involved in religion and finds them lacking. Then, in a surprising
turn, Grunbaum judges some of Freud's interpretations of concrete
religious ideas and practices to be not only cogent, but
indispensable. When it comes to the case of the belief in Virgin
Birth, Grunbaum finds an Oedipal interpretation to be our only
choice. This remarkable essay is the stimulus for a symposium with
nine senior scholars, coming from the fields of philosophy,
psychology, sociology, and psychoanalysis, who present their
critical reflections on how we should study religion, how we should
treat Freud's ideas, and what the future directions in
psychological research on concrete religious behavior should be.
The contributors bring to this effort their varied fields of
expertise, from analytical philosophy to experimental psychology.
Of special interest are essays which deal with the Virgin Birth
doctrine and its possible psychological sources and with the
potential for future psychoanalytic studies of faith and ritual.
Other essays focus on Freud's conscious and unconscious motivations
for studying religion as well as the hidden biases and lacunae
found in the social science literature on religious practices. This
volume adds a unique combination of critical and knowledgeable
voices to the debate on Sigmund Freud's legacy."
Das Buch enth{lt: 1. Die umfassende Diskussion zwischen dem Autor
von 'Die Grundlagen der Psychoanalyse' und seinen Kritikern. 2.
Eine }ber den Originaltext hinausgehende Kritik des Autors an der
Psychoanalyse. 3. Eine Abhandlung }ber den 'Placebobegriff in
Medizin und Psychiatrie'
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.
Adolf Grunbaum is one of the giants of 20th century philosophy of
science. This volume is the first of three collecting his most
essential and highly influential work. The essays collected in this
first volume focus on three related areas. They discuss scientific
rationality-the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called
scientific, and ask whether it is plausible to draw a clear
distinction between science and non-science as was famously
proposed by Karl Popper. They delve into the debate between
determinism and indeterminism, in both science and in the
humanities. Grunbaum defends the position of the Humane
Determinist, which then leads to a thorough criticism of the
current theological approaches to ethics and morality-where
Grunbaum defends an explicit Secular Humanism-as well as of
prominent theistic interpretations of twentieth century physical
cosmologies. The second volume is devoted to Grunbaum's writings on
the Philosophy of Physics and Space-Time, and the third to his
lectures on the Philosophy of Psychology and Psychoanalysis,
including his 1985 Gifford Lectures, which are to be published for
the first time.
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