Publications on Critique of Theism

by Adolf Grünbaum

Reprints may be ordered by the bracketed item number. 

NOTE: The bracketed numbers reference the article in Grünbaum's full bibliography and are not consecutive in this Critique of Theism bibliography.

rev. February 2008

[223]    (1987) “Psychoanalysis and Theism,” The Monist 70(2) (April): 152–192. A revised version of this essay appeared as Chapter 7 in Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis (1993).

[262]    (1991) Psicoanalisi e Teismo. Naples, Italy: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. This is an Italian translation of     “Psychoanalysis  and Theism” from The Monist (1987), with an Introduction by A. Pagnini.

[224]    (1987) “The Place of Secular Humanism: Current American Political Culture,” Vital Speeches of the Day LIV(2) (November 1): 42–47.

           [225]     (1987) “Secular Humanism in American Political Culture,” Free Inquiry 8(1) (Winter 1987/1988): 21–25. This is a truncated version of “The Place of Secular Humanism:  Current American Political Culture” in Vital Speeches of the Day (1987).

           [239]     (1989) “Secular Humanism in American Political Culture,” in: R. Basil,  M.B. Gehrman, and  T. Madigan (eds.), On the Barricades: Religion and Free Inquiry in Conflict. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 52–61. This is a truncated version of “The Place of Secular Humanism: Current American Political Culture” in Vital Speeches of the Day (1987).

[244]    (1989) “The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology,” Philosophy of Science 56(3) (September): 373–394.

            [245]    (1989) “The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology,” Epistemologia XII(1): 3–31. This is a reprint of the article in Philosophy of Science (1989).

            [246]    (1989) “The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology,” Free Inquiry 9(4) Fall: 48–57. This is a version of the article in Philosophy of Science (1989).

            [253]     (1990) “The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology,” in: J. Leslie (ed.), Physical Cosmology and Philosophy. Philosophical Issues Series, P. Edwards (ed.). New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., pp. 92–112. This is a reprint of the article in Philosophy of Science (1989). An enlarged version of the Leslie anthology was published by Prometheus Books (1998) in Amherst, NY.

            [260]     (1991) “Die Schöpfung als Scheinproblem der physikalischen Kosmologie,” in: A. Bohnen and A. Musgrave (eds.), Wege der Vernunft, Festschrift zum Siebzigsten Geburtstag von Hans Albert. Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), pp. 164–191. This is a German translation of a revised version of “The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology” in Philosophy of Science (1989).

            ---        (1999) “The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology,” http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/problem.html.  This is a reprint of the article in Philosophy of Science (1989).

[251]   (1990) “Pseudo-Creation of the Big Bang,” Nature 344(6269) (April 26): 821–822.

           [269]     (1992) “Perché il Big Bang non è la creazione,” Il Sole-24 Ore 20 (May 3): 24. This is an Italian translation of “Pseudo-creation of the 'Big Bang' “ in Nature (1990).

           [271]     (1992) “Pseudo-Creation of the 'Big Bang,” Free Inquiry 13(1) (Winter 1992/1993): 14–15. This is a reprint of the article in Nature (1990).

[258]   (1991) “Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology,” Erkenntnis 35(July): 233–254.

            [259]     (1991) “Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology,” in: W. Spohn (ed.), Erkenntnis Orientated. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 233–254. This reprint of the article in Erkenntnis (1991) is part of a special volume in honor of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach.

           ---         (1999) “Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology,” http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/explanation.html.  This is a reprint of the article in Erkenntnis (1991).

[266]    (1992) “Big Bang Doesn't Equate with Start of Time,” Letter-to-the-Editor, The New York Times (May 13): A 14.

[268]    (1992) “In Defense of Secular Humanism,” Free Inquiry 12(4) (Fall): 30–39.

            [288]    (1994) “In Defense of Secular Humanism,” in: P. Kurtz and T.J. Madigan (eds.), Challenges to the Enlightenment, In Defense of Reason and Science. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books: 102–129. This is a reprint of the article in Free Inquiry (1992).

[270]    (1992) “Pluralism & the Church,” Letter-to-the-Editor, Commentary 94(4) (October): 7–8.

[274]    (1992) “This ‘Bang’ Wasn't as Big as You Make It,” Letter-to-the-Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 29): 12. A misprint “Correction” appeared in the April 30,

            1992 issue, p. 2.

[278]    (1993) “Creation in Cosmology,” in: N. S. Hetherington (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cosmology, Scientific, Philosophical and Historical Foundations. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.: 126–136.

[281]    (1993) “Narlikar's ‘Creation’ of the Big Bang Universe Was a Mere Origination,” Philosophy of Science 60(4) (December): 638–646.

[282]    (1993) “Seymour Cain's Jeremiad: A Rejoinder,” Free Inquiry XIV(1) (Winter 1993/1994): 58–62. This issue also includes Cain's paper “In Response to Grünbaum's Defense,” a critique of “In Defense of Secular Humanism.”

[291]    (1994) “Some Comments on William Craig's 'Creation and Big Bang Cosmology,’ “ Philosophia Naturalis 31(2): 225–236.

            [331]     (1999) “Some Comments on William Craig's ‘Creation and Big Bang Cosmology,’” http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/comments.html.This is a reprint of the article in Philosophia Naturalis (1994).

[296]    (1995) “Origin versus Creation in Physical Cosmology,” in: L. Krüger and  B. Falkenburg (eds.), Physik, Philosophie und die Einheit der Wissenschaften. Festschrift for Erhard Scheibe. Heidelberg, Germany: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag: 221–254.

            [297]     (1995) “Proishojzdenie protiv tvorenija v fizicheskoi kosmologii,” Voprosi Filosofii (2): 48–60. This is a Russian translation of “Origin versus Creation in Physical Cosmology” in Physik, Philosophie und die Einheit der Wissenschaften. Festschrift for Erhard Scheibe (1995).

[298]    (1995) “The Poverty of Theistic Morality,” in: K. Gavroglu, J. Stachel, and  M.W. Wartofsky (eds.), Science, Mind and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion and Ethics, in Honor of Robert S. Cohen. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 165. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 203–242.

            ---        (2000) “The Poverty of Theistic Morality,” http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/poverty.html. This is a reprint of the essay in Science, Mind and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion and Ethics, in Honor of Robert S. Cohen (1995).

            [362]     (2004) “Das Elend der Theistischen Moral,” in: B. Boothe and P. Stoellger (eds.), Moral als Gabe: Zur Ambivalenz von Moral und Religion. Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen und Neumann, pp. 143─175. This is a German translation of an enlarged version of “The Poverty of Theistic Morality” in Science, Mind and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion and Ethics, in Honor of Robert S. Cohen (1995).

            [372]     (2005) “Das Elend der Theistischen Moral,” in: E. Dahl, Brauchen wir Gott? Moderne Texte zur Religionskritik. Stuttgart, Germany: S. Hirzel, pp. 125─157. This German translation of “The Poverty of Theistic Morality” is a reprint of the article in Moral als Gabe: Zur Ambivalenz von Moral und Religion (2004).

            [374]    (2005) “The Poverty of Theistic Morality,” Free Inquiry, Oct./Nov., 25(6), p. 41.This is a condensed version of the essay which first appeared in Science, Mind and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion and Ethics, in Honor of Robert S. Cohen (1995).

[301]    (1996) “Energy Conservation and Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology,” in: J. L.Greffe, G. Heinzmann, and K. Lorenz (eds.), Henri Poincaré:   Science and Philosophy. Congrès International, Nancy, France, 1994. Berlin, Germany/Paris, France: Akademie Verlag/Albert Blanchard: 209–230.

[310]    (1996) “Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology,” Foundations of Physics 26(4) (April): 523–543.

            [325]    (1998) “Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology,” Philo 1(1) (Spring/Summer): 15─34. This is a substantially revised version of the article by the same title in Foundations of Physics (1996).

            ---        (1999) “Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology,” http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/theological.html.  This is a reprint of the article in Philo (1998).

            [357]     (2003) “Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology,” in: R.M. Gale and A.R. Pruss (eds.), The Existence of God. Hants, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co.: 327─346. This is a reprint of the article in Philo (1998).

            [370]     (2005) “Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology,” in L.N. Oaklander and R.C. Hoy (eds.) Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings. 2d ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth Publishing: 525─539.

[330]    (1999) “My Exodus to Secular Humanism,” Free Inquiry 19(4) (Fall): 25.

[336]    (2000) “A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (March): 1–43.

            [346]    (2001) “A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology,” in: M. Rédei and M. Stöltzner (eds.), John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 2000, no. 8. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 269–288. This is a lecture presented at the Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna, Austria, June 7, 1999. It is a much condensed and revised version of the article in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2000).

            [355]    (2002) “Novaya kritika teologicheskih interpretatsii fizicheskoi kosmologii,” Voprosi Filosofii (12). This is a Russian translation of “A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology” in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2000).

[367]    (2004) “The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55(4) 2004: 561─614.

            [365]    (2004) “Nishcheta teisticheskoi kosmologii.” Voprosy Filosofii, no. 8: 99─114, no. 9: 149─162, no. 10: 114─124. This is the Russian translation by D.G. Lakhuti. It is to be noted that, because of its great length, this essay was spread over three successive issues of Voprosy Filosofii. Moreover, these three installments represent an earlier version of my 2004 English essay “The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology,” which occupied 54 consecutive printed pages as the lead article in the December 2004 issue of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science [367].

[364]    (2004) “Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? An Ill-Conceived Question Whose Theistic Answer Fails,” in: W. Löffler and P. Weingartner (eds.), Knowledge and Belief - Wissen und Glauben. Proceedings of the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2003. Vienna, Austria: Osterreichischer Bundesverlag/Holder-Pichler-Tempsky: 287─297.

[377]    (2005) “Rejoinder to Richard Swinburne’s ‘Second Reply to Grünbaum’” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56(4), 927-938.

[382]   (2007) “Why is there a Universe AT ALL, Rather Than Just Nothing?” in C. Meister & P. Copan (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 441-451.

            [384]  (April 2008) “Why is There a Universe, AT ALL, Rather Than Just Nothing?” Proceedings from the 13th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, London: Kings College Publications. (This article was the Presidential Address for the congress delivered by A. Grünbaum on August 9, 2007 at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.)