Adolf Grünbaum

Adolf Grunbaum 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, a post he held from 1960 until his death, and he also served as co-chairman of the university's Center for Philosophy of Science from 1978, as research professor of psychiatry from 1979, and as 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).