Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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).
