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D-Index
66
Citations
26989
World Ranking
943
National Ranking
54

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Mario Bunge was affiliated with McGill University in Canada and contributed extensively to the social sciences. Their scholarly output included work across multiple subfields, notably Political Science and International Relations, Law, Sociology and Political Science, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research topics covered a range of areas including:

  • Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
  • Comparative International Legal Studies
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia
  • Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research

They authored several recent papers, among them:

  • "El derecho como técnica social de control y reforma" (2021) published in Isonomía - Revista de teoría y filosofía del derecho
  • "De la neurologie sans âme et de la psychologie sans tête à la neuropsychologie" (2023) published in Petite revue de philosophie
  • "Article 9. Critique destructive et constructive" (2020) published in Mεtascience

Frequent collaborators included Rubén Ardila, Herbert Spengler, Heriberto Janosch González, and Alfonso Serrano-Maíllo.

Among their book publications were:

  • Philosophie der Psychologie (2025), published by Mohr Siebeck eBooks
  • Agresiones sexuales cometidas por desconocidos (2020), published by Dykinson eBooks

Mario Bunge received several awards across their career, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992), Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1984)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1971)

Best Publications

  • La investigación científica : su estrategia y su filosofía

    Mario Bunge

  • La Ciencia su Método y su Filosofía

    Mario Bunge

  • Causality and modern science

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Treatise on basic Philosophy

    Mario Bunge

  • Mind and Society

    Mario Bunge

  • Teoría y realidad

    Mario Bunge;José Luis García Molina;Joaquín Sempere

  • Finding philosophy in social science

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Mechanism and Explanation

    Mario Bunge

  • How Does It Work?: The Search for Explanatory Mechanisms

    Mario Bunge

  • The Mind-Body Problem: A Psychobiological Approach

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Foundations of biophilosophy

    M. Mahner;Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Social science under debate : a philosophical perspective

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Philosophy of Physics

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Method, model, and matter

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • La investigación cientifica

    Mario Bunge

  • Ciencia y desarrollo

    Mario Bunge

  • The Sociology-Philosophy Connection

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Scientific Research I

    Mario Bunge

  • Filosofía de la psicología

    Mario Bunge;Rubén Ardila

  • Classical Field Theories

    Mario Bunge

  • Cerebral correlates of conscious experience

    M. Bunge

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodolfo R. Llinás
Rodolfo R. Llinás New York University
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell Queen's University
Michael R. Matthews
Michael R. Matthews University of New South Wales
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton Lancaster University

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