Adherence to scientism has been repaying handsomely, economically as well as culturally, whereas betting on anti-scientistic dogmas threatens the growth of knowledge.
Mario Bunge, a physicist by training, is the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of more than four hundred articles and thirty-five books on physics, metaphysics, semantics, epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, etc. His latest book is Finding Philosophy in Social Science (Yale University Press, 1996), and his book with Martin Mahner, Fundamentals of Biophilosophy, is about to be published by Springer. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.