Slezak, Peter (Author)
Science and Education
Volume: 21, no. 10
Issue: 10
Pages: 1475-1484
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Mario Bunge: Evaluations of His Systematic Philosophy”
Language: English
Bunge's writings on the mind--body problem provide a rigorous, analytical antidote to the persistent anti-materialist tendency that has characterized the history of philosophy and science. Bunge gives special attention to dualism and its shortcomings, and this attention is welcome in view of the resurgence of the doctrine today. However, I focus my comments selectively on Bunge's more controversial, provocative claims, not to dismiss them, but to engage with them seriously. For example, a difficulty arising from Bunge's rhetorical style and its undoubted virtues is that not all the targets of his selfconfessed bashings (2010, xi) are equally deserving. For example, Bunge suggests most contemporary philosophers of mind are indifferent to psychology, or are remarkably uninformed about it. This charge cannot be sustained today in light of the work of foremost philosophers today.
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