Mario Bunge
Mario Augusto Bunge (/ˈbʊŋɡeɪ/; Spanish: [ˈbuŋxe]; 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.
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| Born | September 21, 1919 Florida Oeste, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | February 24, 2020 (aged 100) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Education | National University of La Plata (PhD, 1952) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Scientific realism Emergentism |
Main interests | Philosophy of science Philosophy of physics Pseudoscience |
Notable ideas | Systemics, sociotechnology |
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.
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