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Volume 7 EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY III: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY

S EMAT I C S I

Sense and Reference 2

SEMATICS II

Interpretation and Truth 3

ONTOLOGY I

The Furniture of the World 4

ONTOLOGY II

A World of Systems 5

EPISTEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY I

Exploring the World 6

EPI STEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY II

Understanding the World 7

EPISTEMOLOGY & MET HOD 0 LOG Y II I

Philosophy of Science & Technology 8

E T HI C S

The Good and the Right

MARIO BUNGE

Treatise on Basic Philosophy VOLUME 7

Epistemology & Methodology III:

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART II LIFE SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bunge, Mario Augusto. Philosophy of science and technology. (Epistemology & methodology; 3) (Treatise on basic philosophy; v. 7) Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. Contents: pI. 1. Formal and physical sciences - pI. 2. Life science, social science. and technology. I. Science-Philosophy. 2. Technology-Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series: Bunge, Mario Augusto. Epistemology & methodology; 3. III. Series: Bunge, Mario Augusto. Treatise on basic philosophy; v. 7. BDI61.B86 1983 no. 3 [Q175J 121 [121] 85-2431 ISBN 90-277-1913-6 (pI. 2) ISBN 90-277-1903-9 (pI. I) ISBN 90-277-1914-4 (pbk.: pI. 2) ISBN 90-277-1904-7 (pbk.: pt. I)

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All Rights Reserved cD 1985 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means. electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system. without written permission from the copyright owner ISBN-13:978-94-01O-8835-0 e-ISBN-13:978-94-009-5287-4 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-5287-4

Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1985

GENERAL PREFACE TO THE TREATISE

This volume is part of a comprehensive Treatise on Basic Philosophy. The treatise encompasses what the author takes to be the nucleus of contemporary philosophy, namely semantics (theories of meaning and truth), epistemology (theories of knowledge), metaphysics (general theories of the world), and ethics (theories of value and right action). Social philosophy, political philosophy, legal philosophy, the philosophy of education, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion and other branches of philosophy have been excluded from the above quadrivium either because they have been absorbed by the sciences of man or because they may be regarded as applications of both fundamental philosophy and logic. Nor has logic been included in the Treatise