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Manuel Doria
Feb 29, 2020, 9:10:40 AM2/29/20
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From: Michael Matthews <m.mat...@unsw.edu.au>
Date: Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:06 AM
Subject: Mario Bunge: Physicist, Philosopher, Champion of Science, and
Citizen of the World (1919-2020)
To: hpsst...@lists.unsw.edu.au <hpsst...@lists.unsw.edu.au>
Dear Colleagues,
Mario Bunge, the centenarian Argentine/Canadian physicist/philosopher
passed away in the loving company of his wife Marta and children Eric
and Silvia on 24th February 2020 in Montreal.
Bunge, five years ago, wrote a 500-page autobiography HERE. By
drawing upon his prodigious memory for decades-old readings, events
and conversations, it laid out in fascinating detail his personal,
family, cultural and scholarly life. The Memoir is enormously
educative and a delight to read. It has 1,200 entries in its Name
Index. He manages to say something insightful about the life and work
of nearly every person mentioned in the Index. It is a ‘Who’s Who?’
of modern South American, Anglo-American, and European physics and
philosophy. The book with ample quotations is reviewed HERE. A
30-page account of Bunge’s life, achievements and central
philosophical positions can be read HERE. His scientific,
philosophical, social and educational positions are elaborated and
appraised in a recent 41-chapter Festschrift HERE.
In 70 books and 540 articles , written over an 80-year span, he made
substantial contributions to physics, philosophy of physics,
metaphysics, methodology and philosophy of science, philosophy of
mathematics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science,
philosophy of biology, philosophy of technology, moral philosophy,
social and political philosophy, medical philosophy, criminology,
legal philosophy and education HERE.
For many, Bunge’s realist interpretation of quantum mechanics was his
major contribution to modern physics. In 2003 he surveyed the
arguments in his ‘Twenty-Five Centuries of Quantum Physics: From
Pythagoras to Us, and from Subjectivism to Realism’ HERE. In a
journal double-issue, ten physicists and philosophers laid out and
appraised his ‘signature’ account of quantum mechanics, with Bunge
replying HERE.
The unifying thread of Bunge’s life and research was the constant and
vigorous advancement of the Enlightenment project that brings science
and philosophy together for the advancement of human welfare. He
expended the same energy on criticism of cultural and academic
movements that deny or devalue the core principles of the project:
naturalism; the search for objective, trans-personal, non-subjective
truth; the universality of science; the value of rationality; and
respect for individuals.
Bunge’s passing is a loss for his family and the scholarly world.
Hopefully some in the succeeding generations of philosophers,
physicists and educators will be inspired to emulate his example of a
wide-ranging, in-depth, cosmopolitan approach to the advancement of
knowledge and the formation of a just and equitable society. He
embodies the best, and more, of the liberal education ideal.
Obituaries in the Spanish press can be read HERE, HERE and HERE.
My own obituary for this friend and fine person can be read HERE.
Warm regards,
Michael
A/Professor Michael R. Matthews
School of Education, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia
Email: m.mat...@unsw.edu.au
Web: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-michael-robert-matthews
Author, Science Teaching: The Contribution of HPS:
www.routledge.com/9780415519342
Author, Feng Shui: Teaching About Science & Pseudoscience
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030188214
Editor, HPS&ST Research Handbook (3 vols)
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400776531
Editor, Mario Bunge Festschrift: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783030166724
Editor, Science, Worldviews and Education
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789048127788
Editor, HPS&ST Newsletter: http://www.hpsst.com/
From: Michael Matthews <m.mat...@unsw.edu.au>
Date: Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:06 AM
Subject: Mario Bunge: Physicist, Philosopher, Champion of Science, and
Citizen of the World (1919-2020)
To: hpsst...@lists.unsw.edu.au <hpsst...@lists.unsw.edu.au>
Dear Colleagues,
Mario Bunge, the centenarian Argentine/Canadian physicist/philosopher
passed away in the loving company of his wife Marta and children Eric
and Silvia on 24th February 2020 in Montreal.
Bunge, five years ago, wrote a 500-page autobiography HERE. By
drawing upon his prodigious memory for decades-old readings, events
and conversations, it laid out in fascinating detail his personal,
family, cultural and scholarly life. The Memoir is enormously
educative and a delight to read. It has 1,200 entries in its Name
Index. He manages to say something insightful about the life and work
of nearly every person mentioned in the Index. It is a ‘Who’s Who?’
of modern South American, Anglo-American, and European physics and
philosophy. The book with ample quotations is reviewed HERE. A
30-page account of Bunge’s life, achievements and central
philosophical positions can be read HERE. His scientific,
philosophical, social and educational positions are elaborated and
appraised in a recent 41-chapter Festschrift HERE.
In 70 books and 540 articles , written over an 80-year span, he made
substantial contributions to physics, philosophy of physics,
metaphysics, methodology and philosophy of science, philosophy of
mathematics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science,
philosophy of biology, philosophy of technology, moral philosophy,
social and political philosophy, medical philosophy, criminology,
legal philosophy and education HERE.
For many, Bunge’s realist interpretation of quantum mechanics was his
major contribution to modern physics. In 2003 he surveyed the
arguments in his ‘Twenty-Five Centuries of Quantum Physics: From
Pythagoras to Us, and from Subjectivism to Realism’ HERE. In a
journal double-issue, ten physicists and philosophers laid out and
appraised his ‘signature’ account of quantum mechanics, with Bunge
replying HERE.
The unifying thread of Bunge’s life and research was the constant and
vigorous advancement of the Enlightenment project that brings science
and philosophy together for the advancement of human welfare. He
expended the same energy on criticism of cultural and academic
movements that deny or devalue the core principles of the project:
naturalism; the search for objective, trans-personal, non-subjective
truth; the universality of science; the value of rationality; and
respect for individuals.
Bunge’s passing is a loss for his family and the scholarly world.
Hopefully some in the succeeding generations of philosophers,
physicists and educators will be inspired to emulate his example of a
wide-ranging, in-depth, cosmopolitan approach to the advancement of
knowledge and the formation of a just and equitable society. He
embodies the best, and more, of the liberal education ideal.
Obituaries in the Spanish press can be read HERE, HERE and HERE.
My own obituary for this friend and fine person can be read HERE.
Warm regards,
Michael
A/Professor Michael R. Matthews
School of Education, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia
Email: m.mat...@unsw.edu.au
Web: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-michael-robert-matthews
Author, Science Teaching: The Contribution of HPS:
www.routledge.com/9780415519342
Author, Feng Shui: Teaching About Science & Pseudoscience
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030188214
Editor, HPS&ST Research Handbook (3 vols)
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400776531
Editor, Mario Bunge Festschrift: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783030166724
Editor, Science, Worldviews and Education
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789048127788
Editor, HPS&ST Newsletter: http://www.hpsst.com/
Joao Marcos
Feb 29, 2020, 11:24:34 AM2/29/20
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