Mario Bunge: 21 books

To go through the pages of the Autobiography of Mario Bunge is to accompany him through dozens of countries and examine the intellectual, political, philosophical and scientific spheres of the last hundred years. It is an experience that oscillates between two different worlds: the different and the...

Las ciencias sociales en discusión es el nuevo libro de Mario Bunge, el autor de la monumental obra Treatise on Basic Philosophy, conocido ampliamente como el filosofo de las ciencias. En este volumen centra su atención en las ciencias y tecnologías sociales, considera numerosas disciplinas que...

Most social scientists and philosophers claim that sociology and philosophy are disjoint fields of inquiry. Some have wondered how to trace the precise boundary between them. Mario Bunge argues that the two fields are so entangled with one another that no demarcation is possible or, indeed, desirable....

Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he works to address these problems, as well as that of systems and their emergent properties, as exemplified by the synthesis of molecules,...

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses...

Political philosophy is not a well-defined field. It hovers between political theory and classical philosophy. Few early political thinkers could have anticipated the most pressing political issues of our time: the need to stop global warming; the reduction of nuclear armaments; the rise of inequality...

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses...

Mario Bunge nos ofrece un ensayo exquisito donde reflexiona sobre la intuición y la razón, llegando a un estudio profundo de ambas. Hay muchas formas de intuición o comprensión súbita de algo: hecho, idea o símbolo. Pero, por no resultar de la observación ni del estricto raciocinio,...

Los politólogos describen y explican la política; los filósofos la examinan de manera crítica y sugieren mejoramientos y, en ocasiones, rasgos sociales radicalmente diferentes. En otras palabras, los filósofos políticos proponen escenarios y sueños allí donde los científicos sociales ofrecen...

The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism...

Introducción a la metodología científica y la filosofía de la ciencia o epistemología, esta obra de Mario Bunge es el libro de texto en toda Hispanoamérica. Hoy reaparece en Editorial Sudamericana en una versión corregida y aumentada con un capitulo que la actualiza, pues analiza la...

Los médicos filosofan todo el tiempo, casi siempre sin saberlo. Así adoptan: el realismo, cuando dan por descontado que sus pacientes son reales: el materialismo, cuando cortan por medio de la cirugía o recetan píldoras en vez de hacer conjuros o rezar; el sistemismo, cuando conciben y tratan...

Important, non-technical, clearly written examination of causality, including discussion of empirical and romantic critiques.

    The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological doctrines believed to have nurtured...