Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift

1. Mario Bunge: An Introduction to His Life, Work and Achievements.- Part I. An Academic Vocation.- 2. Mario Bunge: Argentine's Universal Thinker.- 3. Mario Bunge in the Complex Argentina of the 1940s -1960s.- 4. Mario Bunge as a Public Intellectual.- Part II. Philosophy.- 5. Mario Bunge's Scientific Approach to Realism.- 6. Contrasting Materialisms: Engelsian Dialectical and Bunge's Emergentist.- 7. Quantifiers and Conceptual Existence.- 8. Truth in the Post-Truth Era.: Evaluating the Theories of Truth with a Table of Contingency.- 9. Is Simplicity a Myth? Mach and Bunge on the Principle of Parsimony.- 10. Quantitative Epistemology.- 11. Mario Bunge on Causality: Some Key Insights and Their Leibnizian Precedents.- 12. Mario Bunge and the Current Revival of Causal Realism.- 13. Systemic Thinking.- 14. Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths.- 15. Bunge contra Popper.- 16. Bunge Is Correct About Positivism, But Less So About Marxism and Hermeneutics.- Part III. Physics and Philosophy of Physics.- 17. Physics and Philosophy of Physics in the Work of Mario Bunge.- 18. Causal Explanations: Are They Possible in Physics?.- 19. A Realist Analysis of Six Controversial Quantum Issues.- 20. On the Legacy of a Notable Quantum Dissident: David Bohm (1917 -1992).- Part IV. Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind.- 21. Mario Bunge and Contemporary Cognitive Science.- 22. Is Consciousness an Epiphenomenon?.- Part V. Sociology and Social Theory.- 23. Bunge and Scientific Anthropology.- 24. Social Mechanisms and the Logic of Possibility Trees.- 25. Cultures as Semiotic Systems: Reconceptualizing Culture in a Systemic Perspective.- 26. Bunge on Science and Ideology: A Re-analysis.- Part VI. Ethics and Political Philosophy.- 27. Ethical Politics and Political Ethics I: Agathonism.- 28. How Can Bunge's Scientific-Humanistic Ethics Engage Islamic Moral Law?.- 29. Ethical Politics and Political Ethics II: Socialism Through Integral Democracy.- Part VII. Biology and Philosophy of

Michael R. Matthews is an honorary associate professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. He has degrees in Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Education and History and Philosophy of Science. He has published articles, books, and edited collections in the areas of philosophy of education, history and philosophy of science, and science education. He was Foundation Editor of the Springer journal Science & Education: Contributions from the History and Philosophy of Science. He has been awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science Society (USA) in recognition of his contributions to the teaching of history of science. He has been President of the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group, and the Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science.






Contributors

Joseph Agassi is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and York University, Toronto. He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, and the World Academy of Art and Science; he is a former Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has published more than 600 papers in diverse fields. He has authored 20 books and edited 10.

Evandro Agazzi is Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics  of the Panamerican University of Mexico City, and Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Genoa (Italy) and Fribourg (Switzerland). He is Honorary President, of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science (Brussel), the International Federation of the Philosophical Societies, the International Institute of Philosophy (Paris). He has published in several languages, as author or editor, more than 80 books and about 1,000 papers and book chapters.  His main fields of research are logic, philosophy of