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Adolf Grünbaum

1923 - 2018

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Adolf Grünbaum (; 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Grünbaum is the 1,130th most popular philosopher (down from 1,078th in 2019), the 4,579th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,205th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Adolf Grünbaum ranks 1,130 out of 1,267. Before him are Mario Tronti, Uku Masing, Jaegwon Kim, Polemon of Athens, Kaibara Ekken, and Anna Tumarkin. After him are Pritilata Waddedar, Derek Prince, Allan Bloom, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Pierre Lévy, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Adolf Grünbaum ranks 304. Before him are Jaroslav Pelikan, Pierre Chaunu, Stefan Bozhkov, Kosta Tomašević, Xie Jin, and Ladislav Fuks. After him are Juan Acuña, Vittorio De Seta, Helen Murray Free, V. N. Janaki, Fats Navarro, and Paula Fox. Among people deceased in 2018, Adolf Grünbaum ranks 329. Before him are Barys Kit, Fadil Vokrri, Clint Walker, Aureliano Bolognesi, Paddy Ashdown, and Shuhrat Abbosov. After him are István Géczi, John Julius Norwich, Warwick Estevam Kerr, Alexander Zakharchenko, Neagu Djuvara, and Robby Müller.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Grünbaum ranks 4,582 out of 7,253. Before him are Oliver Masucci (1968), Leon Goretzka (1995), Ernst Ahl (1898), Peter Frenkel (1939), Carl Locher (1851), and Ulrich Tukur (1957). After him are Werner Teske (1942), Paul Zielinski (1911), Günter Sawitzki (1932), Robert Franz (1815), Therese Zenz (1932), and Willibald Kreß (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Adolf Grünbaum ranks 143. Before him are Max Dessoir (1867), Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778), Theodor Benfey (1809), Hermann Gunkel (1862), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), and Josef Pieper (1904). After him are Dieter Henrich (1927), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Volker Zotz (1956), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), Walter Kaufmann (1921), and Hermann Lietz (1868).

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