PHILOSOPHER

Mario Bunge

1919 - 2020

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Mario Augusto Bunge ( BUUNG-gay, Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβuŋxe]; September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Bunge has received more than 319,067 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mario Bunge is the 664th most popular philosopher (up from 722nd in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 124th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mario Bunge ranks 664 out of 1,267Before him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Svetozar Marković, Cebes, Leo the Mathematician, Gustavo Gutiérrez, and Dignāga. After him are Stein Rokkan, Alfred Schmidt, Jaakko Hintikka, Guarino da Verona, Jean Wahl, and Yang Xiong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mario Bunge ranks 82Before him are Joop den Uyl, George Wallace, Glafcos Clerides, Uta Hagen, Peter Abrahams, and Frederik Pohl. After him are Janko Bobetko, Ernst Barkmann, Marina Ginestà, Hermann Gmeiner, Margaret Burbidge, and Edoardo Mangiarotti. Among people deceased in 2020, Mario Bunge ranks 125Before him are George Floyd, Ilija Petković, Wilford Brimley, James Randi, Alejandro Sabella, and Harry Gregg. After him are Bettina Heinen-Ayech, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Paik Sun-yup, Nikolai Kapustin, Amadeo Carrizo, and Philippe Nahon.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Mario Bunge ranks 112 out of 1,154Before him are Manuel Puig (1932), José Manuel Moreno (1916), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alejandro Sabella (1954), Alberto Manguel (1948), and Guillermo Mordillo (1932). After him are José Pékerman (1949), Sergio Agüero (1988), Luis Carniglia (1917), Libertad Lamarque (1908), Victoria Ocampo (1890), and Héctor Babenco (1946).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Argentina

Among philosophers born in Argentina, Mario Bunge ranks 2Before him are Ernesto Laclau (1935).