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Bunge began his studies at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, graduating with a Ph.D. in physico-mathematical sciences in 1952. He was professor of theoretical physics and philosophy, 1956 - 1966, first at La Plata then at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Dissatisfied with the political climate of his country, he chose to emigrate. After a few years teaching in American, Mexican and German universities, he has taught philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada since 1966. He holds the Frothingham chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University. National University of La Plata (Spanish:Universidad Nacional de La Plata) is an Argentine state university, and the most important in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions, as opposed to experimental processes, in an attempt to understand Nature. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is the biggest university in Argentina, founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 366. ...

Bunge set out his philosophical thinking systematically in his Treatise on Basic Philosophy, a monumental work in 8 volumes, comprising semantics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, and ethics. There, and in more than 80 books and 400 papers, Bunge develops a comprehensive scientific outlook which he then applies to the various natural and social sciences. His thinking embodies global rationalism, scientific realism, materialism and consequentialism. Bunge has repeatedly and explicitly denied being a logical positivist, and has written on metaphysics, dismissed by the Vienna Circle as meaningless. In the political arena, Bunge has defined himself as a "Left-wing liberal", in the tradition of the Argentine "positivist" movement of José Ingenieros and Carlos Octavio Bunge (his uncle). In the main, semantics (from the Greek and in greek letters σημαντικός or in latin letters semantikós, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ... In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek , genitive : of being (part. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Knowledge. ... Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including the formal sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. ... Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to distinguish that which is right from that which is wrong. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Scientific realism is a view in the philosophy of science about the nature of scientific success, an answer to the question what does the success of science involve? The debate over what the success of science involves centers primarily on the status of unobservable entities (objects, process and events) apparently... In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. ... Consequentialism refers to those moral theories that hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgement about that action. ... Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, or neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism—which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge—with a version of apriorism—the notion that some propositional knowledge can be had without, or prior to, experience. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Moritz Schlick around 1930 The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers who gathered around Moritz Schlick when he was called to the Vienna University in 1922, organized in a philosophical association named Verein Ernst Mach (Ernst Mach Society). ... Politics is a process by which decisions are made within groups. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Political Liberalism is an update to John Rawls 1971 Theory of Justice in which Rawls attempts to show that his theory of justice is not a comprehensive conception of the good, but is instead compatible with a liberal conception of the role of justice: namely, that government should be neutral... José Ingenieros (24 April 1877 - 31 October 1925), was an Argentine physician, positivist philosopher and essayist. ...

References

1. Racionalidad y realismo. Madrid: Alianza, 1985. [ISBN 84-206-2445-4]
2. Vistas y entrevistas. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1997 (segunda edición) [ISBN 950-07-1311-X].
3. Ética, ciencia y técnica. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1996. [ISBN 950-07-1131-1]

Selected Works by Mario Bunge

• 1960. La ciencia, su método y su filosofía. Buenos Aires: Eudeba. (In French: La science, sa méthode et sa philosophie. Paris: Vigdor, 2001. [ISBN 2-910243-90-7])
• 1962. Intuition and Science. Prentice-Hall. (In French: Intuition et raison. Paris: Vigdor, 2001. [ISBN 2-910243-89-3])
• 1969. La Investigación Científica. Su estrategia y su filosofía. Barcelona: Ediciones Ariel. (In English: Scientific Research. Strategy and Phylosophy)
• 1973. Philosophy of Physics. Dordrecht: Reidel.
• 1980. The Mind-Body Problem. Oxford: Pergamon.
• 1984. "What is Pseudoscience", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol.9, No.1, (Fall 1984), pp.36-46.
• 1974-89. Treatise on basic philosophy, in 8 vols. Dordrecht: Reidel.
• 1996. Finding Philosophy in Social Science. Yale University Press.
• 1998. Dictionary of Philosophy. Prometheus Books.
• 2001. Philosophy in Crisis. Prometheus Books.
• 2000. La relación entre la sociología y la filosofía. Madrid: Edaf.
• 2003. Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Works about Mario Bunge

• Andy Denis, Methodology and policy prescription in economic thought: a response to Mario Bunge.
• Agassi, Joseph, and Robert S. Cohen, eds., 1982. Scientific Philosophy Today: Essays in Honor of Mario Bunge. Dordrecht: Reidel.
• Raúl Serroni-Copello, 1989, Encuentros con Mario Bunge. Asociación de Investigaciones en Psicología.
• Weingartner, Paul, and Dorn, Georg, eds., 1990. Studies on Bunge's Treatise. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
• Vacher, Laurent-Michel, 1993. Entretiens avec Mario Bunge. Montreal: Laurent-Michel Vacher.

See also

• List of famous Montrealers
• List of Montreal philosophers

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External links

• Mario Bunge's Home Page.
• Selected publications.