artículo
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FLOW IN SCIENCE: FROM THE MONO-CASUAL EXPLANATIONS TO THE MULTI-CASUAL EXPLANATIONS
Fecha
2014Registro en:
0378-1844
WOS:000346685900011
Autor
Espinoza Verdejo, Alex
Herrera Balboa, Samuel
Institución
Resumen
The philosophical discussion about the new ways of explaining reality has shocked contemporary epistemology once positivism has invaded intellectuals. The empiricist criteria, akin to the scientific vision of the world and modernism, have taken an option in favor of mono-causality; this has been troublesome for experiments in the micro-world. Thus system theory and with it plural-causality will be the solution. In this work mono-cause universal explanation is a theme essential to intelligibility, and thus essential to the human species, and so sciences have ignore intelligibility and final causes, turning themselves into the pragmatic credo. The oblivion of the metaphysical import in the sciences has not been good for the development of knowledge when we intend to understand. However, we see that multi-causal explanations and with them the system theory have been welcome, mainly in the social sciences. The thought of Niklas Luhman is a clear example of the former, only that in this work a claim is made for the fact of forgetting teleology in systems.