This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge. It celebrates the work of this influential Argentine/Canadian physicist and philosopher. Contributions show the value of Bunge's science-informed philosophy and his systematic approach to philosophical problems.

1. Mario Bunge: An Introduction to His Life, Work and Achievements.- Part I. An Academic Vocation.- 2. Mario Bunge: Argentine's Universal Thinker.- 3. Mario Bunge in the Complex Argentina of the 1940s -1960s.- 4. Mario Bunge as a Public Intellectual.- Part II. Philosophy.- 5. Mario Bunge's Scientific Approach to Realism.- 6. Contrasting Materialisms: Engelsian Dialectical and Bunge's Emergentist.- 7. Quantifiers and Conceptual Existence.- 8. Truth in the Post-Truth Era.: Evaluating the Theories of Truth with a Table of Contingency.- 9. Is Simplicity a Myth? Mach and Bunge on the Principle of Parsimony.- 10. Quantitative Epistemology.- 11. Mario Bunge on Causality: Some Key Insights and Their Leibnizian Precedents.- 12. Mario Bunge and the Current Revival of Causal Realism.- 13. Systemic Thinking.- 14. Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths.- 15. Bunge contra Popper.- 16. Bunge Is Correct About Positivism, But Less So About Marxism and Hermeneutics.- Part III. Physics and Philosophy of Physics.- 17. Physics and Philosophy of Physics in the Work of Mario Bunge.- 18. Causal Explanations: Are They Possible in Physics?.- 19. A Realist Analysis of Six Controversial Quantum Issues.- 20. On the Legacy of a Notable Quantum Dissident: David Bohm (1917 -1992).- Part IV. Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind.- 21. Mario Bunge and Contemporary Cognitive Science.- 22. Is Consciousness an Epiphenomenon?.- Part V. Sociology and Social Theory.- 23. Bunge and Scientific Anthropology.- 24. Social Mechanisms and the Logic of Possibility Trees.- 25. Cultures as Semiotic Systems: Reconceptualizing Culture in a Systemic Perspective.- 26. Bunge on Science and Ideology: A Re-analysis.- Part VI. Ethics and Political Philosophy.- 27. Ethical Politics and Political Ethics I: Agathonism.- 28. How Can Bunge's Scientific-Humanistic Ethics Engage Islamic Moral Law?.- 29. Ethical Politics and Political Ethics II: Socialism Through Integral Democracy.- Part VII. Biology and Philosophy of Biology.-30. A Reconstruction of the Theory of Ecology Based on Mario Bunge's Mechanistic Epistemology and Systemic Ontology.- 31. Mechanismic Approaches to Explanation in Ecology.- 32. Bungean Systemic Ontology and Its Application to Research in Animal Parasitism.- Part VIII. Mathematics.- 33. Bunge's Mathematical Structuralism Is Not a Fiction.- 34. On Leaving as Little to Chance as Possible.- 35. Dual Axiomatics.- Part IX. Education.- 36. Mario Bunge and the Enlightenment Project in Science Education.- 37. Cognition and Education: A Bungean Systemic Perspective.- Part X. Varia.- 38. Bunge's Requirement of Neurological Plausibility for a Linguistic Theory.- 39. Mechanisms in Clinical Research and Medical Practice.- 40. Emergence, Systems and Technophilosophy.- Part XI. Bibliography.- 41. Mario Bunge Publications (All Languages).