SECTION I: SEMANTICS

M. Dillinger

On the Concept of ‘a Language’

J. Ferrater-Mora

On Mario Bunge’s Semantical Realism

A. Bartels

Mario Bunge’s Semantical Realism. An Antidote against Incommensurability?

J.-P. Marquis

Partial Truths about Partial Truth

I. Nowakowa and L. Nowak

Approximation and the Two Ideas of Truth

SECTION II: ONTOLOGY

J.M. Bochenski

On the System

J. Agassi

Ontology and Its Discontent

Y. Wand and R. Weber

Mario Bunge’s Ontology as a Formal Foundation for Information Systems Concepts

D. Blitz

Emergent Evolution and the Level Structure of Reality

M. Espinoza

The Four Causes

B. Dubrovsky

A Comment on Three Topics in Volume 7 of the ‘Treatise’: Teleology, the Mind- Body Problem, and Health and Disease

W.R. Shea

Tackling the Mind

H. Kurosaki

Mario Bunge on the Mind-Body Problem and Ontology. Critical Examinations

SECTION III: EPISTEMOLOGY

R. Boudon

On Relativism

G. Vollmer

Against Instrumentalism

M. Kary

Information Theory and the ‘Treatise’: Toward a New Understanding

SECTION IV: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

F. Mirs-Quesada-Canturias

Mario Bunge’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

M. Paty

Reality and Probability in Bunge’s ‘Treatise’

M. Garcma-Sucre

On the Relationship between Mathematics and Physics

B. Kanitscheider

Does Physical Cosmology Transcend the Limits of Naturalistic Reasoning?

M. Stockler

Realism and Classicism, or Something More? Some Comments on Mario Bunge’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

M.E. Burgos

Projections Are a Law of Nature

A. Barcels

Are There Economic Laws?

R. Mattessich

Mario Bunge’s Influence on the Administrative and Systems Sciences

Y. Gingras and J. Niosi

Technology and Society: A View from Sociology

D.A. Seni

The Sociotechnology of Sociotechnical Systems: Elements of a Theory of Plans

P. Weingartner

The Non-Statement View. A Dialogue between Socrates and Theaetetus

SECTION V: ETHICS

E. Garzon-Valdes

Basic Needs, Legitimate Wants and Political Legitimacy in Mario Bunge’s Conception of Ethics

F. Forman

Virtue, the Missing Link to the Last Volume of the ‘Treatise’

G. Zecha

Which Values Are Conductive to Human Survival? A Bunge-Test of Bunge- Ethics

SECTION VI: THE TREATISE AS A PHILOSOPHY

A. Cupani

The Significance of the ‘Treatise’ in the Light of the Western Philosophical Tradition

E. Rosenthal

Scientific Philosophical and Sociopolitical Aspects of the Work of Mario Bunge

SECTION VII: MARIO BUNGE REPLIES

SECTION VIII: MARIO BUNGE’S LIFE AND WORK

M. Bunge

Instant Autobiography

D. Blitz

Bibliography of Mario Bunge’s Publications 1939-1989