PHILOSOPHER

Mario Bunge

1919 - 2020

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Mario Augusto Bunge ( BUUNG-gay; Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβuŋxe]; September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles. He was an advocate of "exact philosophy": 211  and a critic of existentialist, hermeneutical, phenomenological philosophy, and postmodernism.: 172  He was popularly known for his opinions against pseudoscience. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Bunge is the 708th most popular philosopher (down from 664th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Argentina (down from 112th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mario Bunge ranks 708 out of 1,267. Before him are Mary Parker Follett, Charles Renouvier, Franz Neumann, Herman of Carinthia, Péter Pázmány, and Henry More. After him are Francesco Algarotti, Stephen Toulmin, Aedesia, André Glucksmann, Onesicritus, and Svetozar Marković.

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Among people born in 1919, Mario Bunge ranks 96. Before him are Joop den Uyl, Ashraf Pahlavi, Ross Bagdasarian, P. F. Strawson, Artur Fischer, and Janko Bobetko. After him are Ernst Barkmann, Mad Mike Hoare, Raymond Smullyan, Tomáš Špidlík, Amrita Pritam, and Rie Mastenbroek. Among people deceased in 2020, Mario Bunge ranks 153. Before him are Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Rocky Johnson, Bill Withers, Jānis Lūsis, Kang Kek Iew, and Vera Lynn. After him are James E. Gunn, Sergei Khrushchev, Jaswant Singh, Ivry Gitlis, Mad Mike Hoare, and Albert Memmi.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Mario Bunge ranks 131 out of 1,154. Before him are Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Enrique Guaita (1910), José Manuel Moreno (1916), Gaspar Noé (1963), Manuel Ferreira (1905), and Javier Mascherano (1984). After him are Arturo Umberto Illia (1900), Gato Barbieri (1932), Juan Carlos Aramburu (1912), Facundo Cabral (1937), Mauricio Pochettino (1972), and Alberto Manguel (1948).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Argentina

Among philosophers born in Argentina, Mario Bunge ranks 2. Before him are Ernesto Laclau (1935).

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