Born in 1923 into a religiously conservative Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, Grünbaum became an atheist at the age of 13, after reading Schopenhauer.
57 months ago

Adolf Grünbaum, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science and its Department of History of...
74 months ago

Adolf Grünbaum, who built Pitt's philosophy program into one of the world's best, passed away last week at the age of 95.
73 months ago

It's wonderful to remember mentors who helped shaped us, often in ways that might have surprised the influential person if he'd known about...
54 months ago

Recently, I was driving with two of my brothers from New England to New York, and we all got to talking about religion.
96 months ago

Adolf Grunbaum, a professor and researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who was renowned during his time as perhaps the world's pre-eminent philosopher of...
74 months ago

A failure of nerve sinks Dani Levy's film “My Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler,” billed as the first comedy about the Nazi leader to be made...
185 months ago

GENOCIDE is not funny, nor was the war unleashed by Adolf Hitler on the rest of the world. But films that take Hitler seriously can hardly...
216 months ago

Alumni from all over converged on the Pitt's Oakland campus Oct. 25 and 26 for the annual Homecoming celebration.
62 months ago

Jim Holt explores the interzone between philosophy and scientific cosmology in trying to answer an ancient question: why there is something...
149 months ago