A few months after his 100th birthday, one of the most cited Spanish-speaking scientists in history passed away yesterday. Mario Bunge was a philosopher, physicist and epistemologist but also a professor, writer and tireless opponent of pseudosciences.
Bunge had lived in Canada since 1966, where he was a professor of logic and metaphysics at McGill University in Montreal. Before that, his role as a professor served him in our country both at the National University of La Plata and at the University of Buenos Aires, where he gave Theoretical Physics and Philosophy. He also received four honorary professors and was a visiting professor at American, Mexican and European universities. With more than 40 books and hundreds of articles on physics, sociology and philosophy of science, among other things, he was especially known for his defense of scientific realism and his stance against pseudosciences, such as psychoanalysis and medicine Alternatives. One of his great works, Science, his method and his philosophy published in 1960, responds to what is science? and it functions as an introduction to the characterization of scientific knowledge and research as we understand it today. On the other hand, his Treaty of Basic Philosophy, his magnum opus consisting of eight volumes, is an indispensable of modern philosophy.
“Enjoy life and help others live a life worthy of being enjoyed,” the philosopher argued.
