Mario Bunge
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) |
| Spouse(s) |
Julia Delfina Molina y Vedia
(m. 1940, divorced) |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | |
| Education | National University of La Plata (PhD, 1952) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Main interests | |
| Notable ideas | |
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": 211 and a critic of existentialist, hermeneutical, phenomenological philosophy, and postmodernism.: 172 He was popularly known for his opinions against pseudoscience.