The problem of transdisciplinarity: science and philosophy today

Authors

  • Eduardo Luft Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2014v11n1p66

Abstract

The article starts with the question: Why does transdisciplinarity emerge for us as a problem? We will see how the problem of Transdisciplinarity is linked to the crisis of philosophy that is actually a crisis of the very idea of reason and, with it, a deadlock that carries on scientific knowledge also in its entirety. It will be clear that a very specific concept of reason, redolent of a deterministic worldview of modernity, is at the center of this crisis. Theoretical innovations in science and in philosophy illuminate a possible alternative: a new concept of reason, without the bias for the order, emerges from the inner critic to the Hegelian system design and its articulation with the theory of complex adaptive systems and the theory of networks, giving rise to a contemporary proposal of ontology of networks.

Author Biography

Eduardo Luft, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Doutor em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, com um ano de estudos na Universidade de Heidelberg Alemanha. Pós-doutorado pela Universidade de Frankfurt, Alemanha. Professor adjunto da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Published

2014-06-12

Issue

Section

Dossiê: Interdisciplinaridade no ensino, na pesquisa e na extensão. Organização: Dr. Javier Vernal