Author: Mario Bunge
Mario Bunge, a physicist by training, is the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of more than four hundred articles and thirty-five books on physics, metaphysics, semantics, epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, etc. His latest book is Finding Philosophy in Social Science (Yale University Press, 1996), and his book with Martin Mahner, Fundamentals of Biophilosophy, is about to be published by Springer. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.
In Defense of Scientism
Adherence to scientism has been repaying handsomely, economically as well as culturally, whereas betting on anti-scientistic dogmas threatens the growth of knowledge.
A Humanist’s Doubts About the Information Revolution
Secular humanism is widely believed to be a purely negative doctrine that boils down to the denial of the supernatural. This is not so, as any fair sampling of the humanist literature will show (see, e.g., Kurtz, ed. 1973; Storer, ed. 1980; Lamont 1982; Kurtz 1988; Bunge 1989). Indeed, secular humanism is a positive worldview …
The Pope, Evolution, and the Soul
John Paul II has recently admitted that biological evolution is for real. This is no news: Pius XII had admitted it in 1953. But he had warned that evolution, far from happening spontaneously (naturally), is guided from above. (How did he find out?) If evolution had been steered at a distance by God, then natural …