Bøker av Mario Bunge

Although politics, political theory, and political philosophy are often conflated because they interact, they actually are distinct. This book discusses about these disciplines.

This work defends a realist view of universals, kinds, possibilities, and dispositions, while rejecting contemporary accounts of these that are couched in terms of modal logic and 'possible worlds.'

The author of this book examines the thesis that social facts are as objective as physical facts, the so-called Thomas theorem that refutes the behaviorist thesis that social agents react to social stimuli, and Merton's thesis on the ethos of basic science that science and morality are intertwined.

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science

Increasingly, the religious leaders of the world are addressing problems of political economy, expressing concern about the poor

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science

Increasingly, the religious leaders of the world are addressing problems of politi cal economy, expressing concern about the poor. But will their efforts actually help the poor? Or harm them? Much depends, Michael Novak asserts, upon what kind of institutions are constructed, that is, upon realism and practicality. His thesis may be simply stated: Although the Catholic church during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set itself against liberalism as an ide ology, it has slowly come to admire liberal institutions such as democracy and free markets. Between the Catholic vision of social justice and liberal institu tions, Novak argues, there is a profound consonance (but not identity). First published in 1984 as Freedom with Justice, this new edition adds both a lengthy introduction carrying forward the original argument and a long concluding chapter on Pope John Paul II's controversial new encyclical of early 1988, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis.

Taking an unorthodox look at the key philosophical assumptions in the social sciences, this work contends that social scientists such as anthropologists and sociologists ought not to leave philosophy to philosophers who have little expertise in or knowledge of the social sciences.

Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields.

Bunge contends that social science research has fallen prey to a postmodern fascination with irrationalism and relativism. He urges social scientists to re-examine the philosophy and the methodology at the base of their discipline.