Mario Augusto Bunge (/ˈbʊŋɡeɪ/; Spanish: [ˈbuŋxe]; Florida Oeste, September 21, 1919 – Montreal, February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles. He was an advocate of "exact philosophy" and a critic of existentialist, hermeneutical, and phenomenological philosophy, postmodernism, and feminist philosophy. He was popularly known for his opinions against pseudoscience.