Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift [electronic resource] /
Matthews, Michael R.editor.
This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge. It celebrates the work of this influential Argentine/Canadian physicist and philosopher. Contributions show the value of Bunge’s science-informed philosophy and his systematic approach to philosophical problems. The chapters explore the exceptionally wide spectrum of Bunge’s contributions to: metaphysics, methodology and philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of technology, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, medical philosophy, and education. The contributors include scholars from 16 countries. Bunge combines ontological realism with epistemological fallibilism. He believes that science provides the best and most warranted knowledge of the natural and social world, and that such knowledge is the only sound basis for moral decision making and social and political reform. Bunge argues for the unity of knowledge. In his eyes, science and philosophy constitute a fruitful and necessary partnership. Readers will discover the wisdom of this approach and will gain insight into the utility of cross-disciplinary scholarship. This anthology will appeal to researchers, students, and teachers in philosophy of science, social science, and liberal education programmes.
This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge. It celebrates the work of this influential Argentine/Canadian physicist and philosopher. Contributions show the value of Bunge’s science-informed philosophy and his systematic approach to philosophical problems. The chapters explore the exceptionally wide spectrum of Bunge’s contributions to: metaphysics, methodology and philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of technology, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, medical philosophy, and education. The contributors include scholars from 16 countries. Bunge combines ontological realism with epistemological fallibilism. He believes that science provides the best and most warranted knowledge of the natural and social world, and that such knowledge is the only sound basis for moral decision making and social and political reform. Bunge argues for the unity of knowledge. In his eyes, science and philosophy constitute a fruitful and necessary partnership. Readers will discover the wisdom of this approach and will gain insight into the utility of cross-disciplinary scholarship. This anthology will appeal to researchers, students, and teachers in philosophy of science, social science, and liberal education programmes.
1. Mario Bunge: An Introduction to His Life, Work and Achievements -- Part I. An Academic Vocation -- 2. Mario Bunge: Argentine’s Universal Thinker -- 3. Mario Bunge in the Complex Argentina of the 1940s –1960s -- 4. Mario Bunge as a Public Intellectual -- Part II. Philosophy -- 5. Mario Bunge’s Scientific Approach to Realism -- 6. Contrasting Materialisms: Engelsian Dialectical and Bunge’s Emergentist -- 7. Quantifiers and Conceptual Existence -- 8. Truth in the Post-Truth Era.: Evaluating the Theories of Truth with a Table of Contingency -- 9. Is Simplicity a Myth? Mach and Bunge on the Principle of Parsimony -- 10. Quantitative Epistemology -- 11. Mario Bunge on Causality: Some Key Insights and Their Leibnizian Precedents -- 12. Mario Bunge and the Current Revival of Causal Realism -- 13. Systemic Thinking -- 14. Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths -- 15. Bunge contra Popper -- 16. Bunge Is Correct About Positivism, But Less So About Marxism and Hermeneutics -- Part III. Physics and Philosophy of Physics -- 17. Physics and Philosophy of Physics in the Work of Mario Bunge -- 18. Causal Explanations: Are They Possible in Physics? -- 19. A Realist Analysis of Six Controversial Quantum Issues -- 20. On the Legacy of a Notable Quantum Dissident: David Bohm (1917 –1992) -- Part IV. Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind -- 21. Mario Bunge and Contemporary Cognitive Science -- 22. Is Consciousness an Epiphenomenon? -- Part V. Sociology and Social Theory -- 23. Bunge and Scientific Anthropology -- 24. Social Mechanisms and the Logic of Possibility Trees -- 25. Cultures as Semiotic Systems: Reconceptualizing Culture in a Systemic Perspective -- 26. Bunge on Science and Ideology: A Re-analysis -- Part VI. Ethics and Political Philosophy -- 27. Ethical Politics and Political Ethics I: Agathonism -- 28. How Can Bunge’s Scientific-Humanistic Ethics Engage Islamic Moral Law? -- 29. Ethical Politics and Political Ethics II: Socialism Through Integral Democracy -- Part VII. Biology and Philosophy of Biology -- 30. A Reconstruction of the Theory of Ecology Based on Mario Bunge’s Mechanistic Epistemology and Systemic Ontology -- 31. Mechanismic Approaches to Explanation in Ecology -- 32. Bungean Systemic Ontology and Its Application to Research in Animal Parasitism -- Part VIII. Mathematics -- 33. Bunge’s Mathematical Structuralism Is Not a Fiction -- 34. On Leaving as Little to Chance as Possible -- 35. Dual Axiomatics -- Part IX. Education -- 36. Mario Bunge and the Enlightenment Project in Science Education -- 37. Cognition and Education: A Bungean Systemic Perspective -- Part X. Varia -- 38. Bunge’s Requirement of Neurological Plausibility for a Linguistic Theory -- 39. Mechanisms in Clinical Research and Medical Practice -- 40. Emergence, Systems and Technophilosophy -- Part XI. Bibliography -- 41. Mario Bunge Publications (All Languages).
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