Article ID: CBB001252226

Between the Under-Labourer and the Master-Builder: Observations on Bunge's Method (2012)

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Agassi, Joseph (Author)


Science and Education
Volume: 21, no. 10
Issue: 10
Pages: 1405-1418


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Mario Bunge: Evaluations of His Systematic Philosophy”
Language: English

Mario Bunge has repeatedly discussed contributions to philosophy and to science that are worthless at best and dangerous at worst, especially cases of pseudo-science. He clearly gives his reason in his latest essay on this matter: The fact that science can be faked to the point of deceiving science lovers suggests the need for a rigorous sifting device. Moreover, this sifting has its rewards, as sometimes intellectual gold comes mixed with muck. Furthermore, the sifting device is a demarcation of science, which answers interesting questions: what is valuable in science and what makes it tick? The question is under dispute. So before coming to it we should admit a few preliminary ideas that are more difficult to contest than ideas that purport to demarcate science.

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Authors & Contributors
Matthews, Michael R.
Carnap, Rudolf
Damböck, Christian
Alvarez de Morales, Camilo
Arthur, Richard T. W.
Bunge, Mario
Journals
Science and Education
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Felix Meiner Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Springer
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Biographies
Science
Historians of science, modern
People
Bunge, Mario
Carnap, Rudolf
Beck, Guido
Canguilhem, Georges
Gayon, Jean
Ginés, Juan Vernet
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Medieval
Places
Germany
United States
Canada
Latin America
Argentina
Institutions
Vienna Circle
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