Mario Bunge | |
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 Bunge in 2007 | |
| Born | Mario Augusto Bunge September 21, 1919 Florida Oeste, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | February 24, 2020 (aged 100) |
| Education | National University of La Plata (PhD, 1952) |
| Spouse(s) |
Julia Delfina Molina y Vedia
(m. 1940, divorced) |
| Children | 4 |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Mario Augusto Bunge (/ˈbʊŋɡeɪ/ BUUNG-gay,[4] 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"[1]: 211 and a critic of existentialist, hermeneutical, phenomenological philosophy, and postmodernism.[1]: 172 He was popularly known for his opinions against pseudoscience.
- ^ a b c Bunge, Mario (2016). Between Two Worlds: Memoirs of a Philosopher-Scientist. Springer Biographies. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29251-9. ISBN 9783319292502. OCLC 950889848.
- ^ Bunge said that he "taught [himself] philosophy between 1936 and 1956" while he was a regular physics student (between 1938 and 1944), studying nuclear physics under Guido Beck (see: Mario Bunge, "Philosophy of Science and Technology: A Personal Report", Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 8: Philosophy of Latin America, pp. 245–272, edited by Guttorm Fløistad Kluwer).
- ^ "Julia Delfina Molina y Vedia Rossi". Geneanet. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Mario Bunge, philosopher and physicist. McGill University on YouTube. November 3, 2015. Event occurs at 0:03. Retrieved February 27, 2020. Interview with Bunge in which the interviewer gives a pronunciation of his name.