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	Mario Bunge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mario Augusto Bunge (born September 21, 1919, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian philosopher and physicist mainly active in Canada.
		Bunge began his studies at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, graduating with a Ph.D. in physico-mathematical sciences in 1952.
		Bunge has repeatedly and explicitly denied being a logical positivist, and has written on metaphysics, dismissed by the Vienna Circle as meaningless.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mario_Bunge (331 words)

	Bunge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nikolai Bunge (1823-1895) was a Russian statesman, economist, and academician.
		Alexander Bunge (1803-1890) was a Russian expert in systematics, taxonomy, and floristics.
		Bunge Land, one of the New Siberian Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bunge (141 words)

	Finding Philosophy in Social Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bunge has long been an outspoken critic of philosophies of science that are out of touch with the content and practice of actual science, philosophies that fit science to preconceived philosophical models or spin out rational reconstructions of the science presented in prefaces, textbooks, stock historical examples, and isolated cases.
		Bunge starts with abstract, ultimately conventional, definitions whose value can only be judged, by his own account of definitions and their role in theory building (chapter 2.6), by their usefulness as a framework for further conceptual and empirical work.
		Bunge's starting point is the conviction that `scientific research is the best way to get to know the world' and, in so far as the conceptual system he builds can be used to rout forms of `anti-scientific' thinking that might undermine this conviction, he seems satisfied that it has proven its worth.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/671/science9.html (780 words)

	Mario Bunge Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mario Augusto Bunge (born August 21, 1919) is an Argentine philosopher and physicist.
		Bunge's philosophy is systematically presented in his Treatise on Basic Philosophy, a monumental work in 8 volumes, comprising ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, and ethics.
		It should be noted, however, that Bunge is not a logical positivist, as he has repeatedly made clear, and as evinced by his interest in metaphysics, which the Vienna Circle despised as meaningless.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bunge_Mario.html (263 words)

	Philosophy of Technology :: Photography Media
		Mario Bunge’s philosophy of technology, on the other hand, is analyzed through, and is a part of, his philosophy of science.
		Mario Bunge’s characterization of applied science and modern technology as a system of grounded rules accomplishes this task; the way in which pure science and technology is related is clear.
		I am in agreement with Mario Bunge in his thesis that the technologist ought to be morally responsible for the changes that he or she causes in the world.
	www.photographymedia.com /article.php?page=All&article=ARTICLE4 (3637 words)

	Essays in Philosophy
		Published to mark Bunge's 80th birthday, this book provided the opportunity for Bunge to select which of his ideas to highlight for the future generations of scholars and teachers unable or unwilling to plough through the myriad publications of a prolific scholarly career, a selection in which Mahner is obviously complicit.
		Bunge's decision to write, revise or edit many of the pieces to fill in the inevitable holes was both wise and fruitful.
		Bunge's last essay in the volume ties the realist perspective to his understanding of technology and bridges both to his view of politics and the future of society.
	www.humboldt.edu /~essays/dentonrev.html (1022 words)

	wais:science and ethics: mario bunge december 2004
		Bunge has held numerous visiting professorships of philosophy including: the University of Pennsylvania, 1960-61, Universidad de la Republica (Montevideo), 1961-62, Texas, 1963, Freiburg, 1966, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico, 1968, Aarus, 1972, ETH Zurich, 1973 and Geneve, 1986-87.
		Bunge is a fellow of the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (S. Paulo, Brazil), 1953, the Fundacion Ernesto Santamarina (Buenos aires), 1954, the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung(Freiburg), 1965-66, Killam (Montreal), 1969-70 and the Guggenheim Foundation, 1972-73.
		Bunge is a member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (1965-), Institut International de Philosophie (1969-), Academy of Humanism (1985-), and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984-) and of The Royal Society of Canada (1992-).
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week120104/science_041201_ethicsmariobunge.htm (475 words)

	The Last Volume of the Treatise
		Mario Bunge is emphatically not a reductionist (ontological bulldozers he calls them) and will not allow that moral statements can be reduced to declarations of preference, any more than he will reduce the emergent biological property of preferring to chemical activity.
		Mario Bunge, of course, is acutely aware of this, but he leans toward politically liberalism and liberals are given to loose talk about such nebulous matters as social justice.
		In Mario Bunge's ontology, the future is constrained by scientific laws, but the intersection of the possibilities remaining by each constraint is not necessarily, and in general fact is not, a set with a single member.
	www.panix.com /~checker/lastvol.htm (9360 words)

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		Bunge’s article makes a number of telling points and is evidence of a growing discomfort with the reductionism of the neoclassical school currently hegemonic within the discipline of economics.
		Bunge’s thesis is, firstly, that there are three fundamental research approaches in the social sciences: the two most influential, individualism and holism, being fatally flawed, with only the minority approach of systemism offering a viable way forward.
		Bunge thus rejects holism as ignoring the fact that the relations, of which our systems of relations consist, depend fundamentally upon the material properties of the relata, the substrate-level entities which are doing the relating.
	www.staff.city.ac.uk /andy.denis/research/jse.doc (2634 words)

	BakingBusiness.com: Home
		Bunge said it intends to make an offer to purchase the 45% of Cereol that remains publicly held at the same price of €32 per share.
		Bunge noted that it might pay an additional €3 per share to Edison and Cereol shareholders upon the resolution of a pending arbitration against Cereol.
		Bunge also said it has agreed to pay an additional €14 million to Edison in exchange for a non-compete agreement.
	www.bakingbusiness.com /feature_stories.asp?ArticleID=57424 (294 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": "Scientific Realism". Metaphysics ...
		Mario Bunge, one of the most influential adherents of “scientific realism” also points out the sketchy character of the positivist concept of the relation of theory to experience.
		Bunge further points out that the term “metaphysics” had different shades of meaning in the history of philosophy and concentrates on two of them.
		Bunge avers that conceptual testability jointly with any of the above four conditions constitute necessary and sufficient conditions for a hypothesis or a theory to be called scientific.
	www.autodidactproject.org /other/naletov13.html (7535 words)

	social philosophy
		As Bunge defines it, wherever one group dominates another so that the dominants are advantaged and the dominated are disadvantaged, this is a situation of class structure.
		But I too am a fan of White's, and except for the name, Bunge ignores most of what White argues in his work (for instance, for White the SYMBOL is the unit of analysis in Culturology, but you would never know that from Bunge's account).
		However, Bunge's suggestion to expand the concept of nationalism to include 64 different varieties would be a big advance over the stereotype currently in use.
	www3.sympatico.ca /cypher/socialscience.htm (952 words)

	Prometheus Books
		This lexicon of modern Western philosophical concepts, problems, principles, and theories may well be the shortest dictionary of philosophy in the English language, but one of the most useful.
		Organized by internationally recognized philosopher Mario Bunge, this indispensable volume, directed to general and university audiences, elucidates and evaluates many contemporary philosophical ideas from a humanist and scientifically oriented perspective.
		Placing emphasis on "living" philosophy, Bunge has deliberately excluded many of the archaic terms and philosophical curios of other dictionaries.
	www.prometheusbooks.com /catalog/book_1291.html (197 words)

	The Metaphysics of Liberty
		Bunge's systemism allows for the successive emergence of novelty and strikes a middle ground between reductionism and holism, or in political terms between atomistic individualism and collectivism.
		It then expounds Bunge's metaphysics in lay terms and applies it to Friedrich Hayek's dismissal of social justice as a mirage, to Ayn Rand's concept of natural rights, and to the evolutionary federalism of the social psychologist Raymond Cattell.
		In the next chapter, we shall expound the ontology of Mario Bunge and later apply his systemic world view to discuss social justice, natural rights and federalism, taking the best features from atomistic individualism and holistic collectivism, the better to have a common framework to discuss all viewpoints.
	www.panix.com /~checker/metalib.htm (20050 words)

	An Ontological and
		According to Bunge '...an ontology is not a set of things but a philosophical theory concerning the basic traits of the world' [2: p.
		Bunge describes the study of Semantics as '...concerned not only with linguistic items but also, and primarily, with the constructs such items stand for and their eventual relation to the real world' [2: p.
		We propose to use Bunge's formalization of the notion of context i.e.
	web.mit.edu /tdqm/www/papers/94/94-11.html (3602 words)

	PS 18: Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mario Bunge combined in his ‘Treatise’ specialized philosophical disciplines into a great synthesis on a high technical level.
		Indeed, the thirty two studies on Mario Bunge’s Treatise describe and discuss his work in detail, and Bunge’s thirty two lively replies lead the reader a long way further into his philosophy.
		The ‘Studies on Mario Bunge’s Treatise’ should be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to scientists and technicians with an interest in foundations of their disciplines.
	www.staff.amu.edu.pl /~pozn-stu/vols/ps18sum.html (124 words)

	Enriching the Ontological Foundations of Modelling in Information Systems
		In a similar way to Bunge’s ontology, Chisholm’s ontology also has the potential to act in more general information systems modelling because it handles static and dynamic aspects of ‘what there is’, and it recognises that situations and structures change over time.
		Bunge’s ontology is one of realism tending towards scientific realism whereas in contrast, Chisholm’s ontology is one of commonsense realism.
		In contrast, that Bunge’s ontology will prove better adapted to the implementation environment or to the application domain when human or social issues are absent.
	www.comp.mq.edu.au /isf99/MiltonKaz.htm (5265 words)

	The Scientific Philosophy of Mario Bunge
		A complete bibliography of Mario Bunge's publications for the period 1939-1989 compiled by David Blitz can be found in:
		Quintanilla Miguel Angel and qu, "Conceptos y cosas: acerca del Tratado de filosofia de Mario Bunge," Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 7: 165-176 (1981).
		Schlegel Richard, "Mario Bunge on causality," Philosophy of Science 28: 260-281 (1961).
	www.formalontology.it /bungem.htm (6466 words)

	Postmodern Deconstruction Of Newtonian Science: A Physical-to-social Transposition Of Causality
		So, returning now to Mario Bunge’s attempted evisceration of the postmodern view of science: Is postmodernism, when objectively (and subjectively as well) founded as indicated here on a physico-social causality that intertwines nature and society, the enemy of learning, rigor, and empirical evidence he believes it to be?
		Postmodernists, contrary to what Bunge would have us believe, indeed may be ‘unorthodox original thinkers’; and their scholarship (Ross 1996; Galison and Stump 1996), although it may seem to be when one’s view of reality is blinkered by the objectivist (OEC) worldview of natural science, is not bogus when the viewpoint adopted (SAC) is subjectivist.
		Bunge’s vitriolic assessment of postmodern thought, unfortunately published through the New York Academy of Sciences, thus is neither truthful nor objective.
	theoryandscience.icaap.org /content/vol002.001/05zaman.html (9160 words)

	Bunge's Systems Ontology
		Mario Bunge, in his Ontology II, systematically (i.e.
		Bunge claims this is a precedence relation and not a hierarchy relation.
		Therefore Dooyeweerd's philosophy is superior to Bunge's in that the latter can to some extent be incorporated in the former as a special and narrowed case.
	www.isi.salford.ac.uk /dooy/ext/bunge.html (2354 words)

	Bunge Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Though recognizing the moribund state of current academic philosophy, in which insulated academics speak only to one another, Mario Bunge feels that this is a...
		Mario Bunge, Author of the Monumental Treatise on Basic Philosophy, is widely appreciated as a philosopher of science.
		Organized by internationally recognized philosopher of science Mario Bunge, this indispensable volume, directed to general and university audiences,...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bunge (480 words)

	Amazon.com: Philosophical Dictionary: Books: Mario Augusto Bunge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This enlarged edition of Mario Bunge's DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY is a superb reference work for both students and professional philosophers.
		In one volume Bunge covers all the major branches of contemporary philosophy, logic, semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology, as well as practical and applied philosophies.
		Bunge's point is of course that Dasein and Heidegger's brand of metaphysics are nonsense.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591020379?v=glance (783 words)

	Prometheus Books
		The prolific and indefatigable Mario Bunge has been writing books and articles on almost every facet of philosophy for nearly fifty years.
		At a time when much contemporary philosophy is mired in obfuscating jargon and devoid of purpose, Bunge's clarity of thought and expression, as well as his commitment to serious philosophical issues, stand out in sharp relief.
		Spanning the years 1954 to 1999, the selections, including both well-known and wholly new articles, demonstrate the range of Bunge's thought and his systematic approach anchored in scientific realism.
	www.prometheusbooks.com /site/catalog/book_990.html (196 words)

	Nettie's Column \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		This conference on Global Humanism for the Cyber-Age promises to be very enjoyable and interesting, and has the attraction of such distinguished speakers as Taslima Nasrin, Mario Bunge and Wole Soyinka.
		Mario Bunge from Argentina is one of the world's leading philosophers of science.
		His work to explain and popularise the scientific outlook has made Bunge one of the most widely read philosophers both in the English-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds.
	www.iheu.org /node/592 (977 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Organized by internationally recognized philosopher of science Mario Bunge, this indispensable volume, directed to general and university audiences, elucidates and evaluates many contemporary philosophical ideas in a naturalistic, rationalist, empiricist, and scientific manner
		Placing emphasis on "living" philosophy, Bunge has consciously excluded many of the archaic terms and philosophical curios of other dictionaries.
		Mario Bunge (Montreal, Quebec) is the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University, and is the author, editor, and/or translator of nearly 100 books.
	www.hutch.demon.co.uk /prom/dictphilos.htm (169 words)

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