Philosophy Now Forum

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:40 am**

In my discussion with Conde Lucanor re Realism vs Anti-Realism, he is fond of names dropping but provide no substantial arguments re those named philosophers, e.g. of Bhaskar, Meillassoux & Mario Bunge.

Here is something about Mario Bunge,

Mario Augusto Bunge (September 21, 1919 – Montreal, 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, and phenomenological philosophy, postmodernism, and feminist philosophy.[1]: 172 He was popularly known for his opinions against pseudoscience.

Bunge was a prolific intellectual, having written more than 400 papers and 80 books, notably his monumental Treatise on Basic Philosophy in eight volumes (1974–1989), a comprehensive and rigorous study of those philosophical aspects Bunge takes to be the core of modern philosophy: semantics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science and ethics.[4] In his Treatise, Bunge developed a comprehensive scientific outlook which he then applied to the various natural and social sciences.

His work is based on global systemism, emergentism, rationalism, scientific realism, materialism and consequentialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bunge#cite_ref-19

I have downloaded the following and read the relevant chapters.
2001: Scientific Realism: Selected Essays of Mario Bunge. Edited by Martin Mahner. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

Anyone has anything interesting to say about Mario Bunge?