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Mario Bunge
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Mario Bunge (1919–2020) was an Argentine-Canadian physicist, philosopher, essayist, and sociologist. Born in Florida Oeste, he held citizenship in both Argentina and Canada. His academic career included positions at the University of Buenos Aires, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National University of La Plata, and McGill University, where he was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He was educated at the National University of La Plata and spoke Spanish and English.
Bunge’s fields of work included the philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, theoretical physics, and epistemology. He was an atheist and was married to Marta Bunge. Among his notable works are *La ciencia*, *¿Tiene porvenir el socialismo?*, *Cinemática del electrón relativista*, *Néo-conservatisme et restructuration de l'État*, and *100 ideas*. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities. He died in Montreal.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 Sep 1919
- Died
- 24 Feb 2020
- Works
- 175
Top works
- La ciencia
- ¿Tiene porvenir el socialismo?
- Cinemática del electrón relativista
- Néo-conservatisme et restructuration de l'État
- 100 ideas / 100 Ideas
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer
· 2012 · cited 10,827x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,646x
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
· 2019 · cited 9,164x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,917x
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Quotes
- “The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis — the most out of the least.”
- “A definitely undesirable rationale sustaining the cult of simplicity is of a metaphysical nature: namely, the wish to attain the ultimate atoms of experience and/or reality ... this drive, which feeds metaphysical fundamentalism, is dangerous because it leads to postulating the final simplicity of some form of experience or some kind of substance thereby barring any inquiry into their structure.”
- “If one aims to judge political movements, their deeds are far more important than their speeches, which are often masking rather than revealing.”
- “Bunge: In September I will be 90 years old.Reporter: You look very youthful.Bunge: That's because I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and postmodernism.”
- “The fact that a great many scientists signed Faustian pacts with the war devil throughout the twentieth century has given science a bad name, and has discouraged many able youngsters from pursuing a scientific career.”
- “In academia much bogus knowledge is tolerated in the name of academic freedom – which is like allowing for the sale of contaminated food in the name of free enterprise. I submit that such tolerance is suicidal: that the serious students must be protected against the “anything goes” crowd.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Mario Augusto Bunge , ( 1919-09-21 ) September 21, 1919, Florida Oeste , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Died
- February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 100), Montreal , Quebec , Canada
- Spouse s
- Julia Delfina Molina y Vedia ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1940 , divorced ) , Marta Cavallo ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 )
- Education
- National University of La Plata (PhD, 1952)
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy scientific realism emergentism
- Institutions
- McGill University
- Main interests
- Philosophy of science philosophy of physics pseudoscience
- Notable ideas
- Systemics sociotechnology
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mario Augusto Bunge (/ˈbʊŋɡeɪ/ BUUNG-gay; Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβuŋxe]; September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles.
He was an advocate of "exact philosophy" and a critic of existentialist, hermeneutical, phenomenological philosophy, and postmodernism. He was popularly known for his opinions against pseudoscience.
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