Scientific Realism: Selected Essays of Mario Bunge

✍ Scribed by Mario Bunge, Martin Mahner (editor)

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 627
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Because of the sheer size of his published works, which include the monumental eight-volume Treatise on Basic Philosophy (1974-1989), there is a need for a relatively concise volume that provides a panorama of the philosophical system that Bunge has developed. Martin Mahner has admirably filled this need with this thoughtful selection of thirty articles which illustrate most aspects of Bunge's philosophy.The subject areas include metaphysics; epistemology and methodology; moral, social, and political philosophy; and the philosophy of mathematics, physics, psychology, social science, and technology. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How Do Realism, Materialism, and Dialectics Fare in Contemporary Science? (1973)
2. New Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1954)
3. Energy: Between Physics and Metaphysics (2000)
4. The Revival of Causality (1982)
5. Emergence and the Mind (1977)
6. The Status of Concepts (1981)
7. Popper's Unworldly World 3 (1981)
8. On Method in the Philosophy of Science (1973)
9. Induction in Science (1963)
10. The GST Challenge to the Classical Philosophies of Science (1977)
11. The Power and Limits of Reduction (1991)
12. Thinking in Metaphors (1999)
13. Moderate Mathematical Fictionism (1997)
14. The Gap between Mathematics and Reality (1994)
15. Two Faces and Three Masks of Probability (1988)
16. Physical Relativity and Philosophy (1979)
17. Hidden Variables, Separability, and Realism (1995)
18. Schrodinger's Cat Is Dead (1999)
19. From Mindless Neuroscience and Brainless Psychology to Neuropsychology (1985)
20. Explaining Creativity (1993)
21. Analytic Philosophy of Society and Social Science: The Systemic Approach as an Alternative to Ho
22. Rational Choice Theory: A Critical Look at Its Foundations (1995)
23. Realism and Antirealism in Social Science (1993)
24. The Nature of Applied Science and Technology (1988)
25. The Technology-Science-Philosophy Triangle in Its Social Context (1999)
26. The Technologies in Philosophy (1999)
27. A New Look at Moral Realism (1993)
28. Rights Imply Duties (1999)
29. Morality Is the Basis of Legal and Political Legitimacy (1992)
30. Technoholodemocracy: An Alternative to Capitalism and Socialism (1994)
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects