Abstract

MORALES JASSO, Gerardo. Environmental Sciences. A characterization from the systemic epistemology. Nova scientia [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.18, pp.646-697. ISSN 2007-0705.  https://doi.org/10.21640/ns.v9i18.869.

This text aims to rethink the environmental sciences to generate a criterion of demarcation and establish their epistemological statute. It starts from a pre-existing categorization of “environment” definitions that links the definitions to two rival epistemologies, in order to limit the conceptions of “environmental problems” and “environmental sciences” and to link the different proposals on the identity of the environmental sciences to the disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary models. From a review of the skeptical and dogmatic positions on the existence of environmental sciences, a definition is proposed that, from the systemism, links “environment”, “environmental problems” and “environmental sciences” without the contradictions that dualism brings; in a way that allows us to establish some foundations that would share the environmental sciences and thus to identify the disciplines that belong to these sciences. In this way, environmental sciences are proposed as disciplines that carry the germ of a scientific revolution. Which distances them from natural sciences and social sciences, as well as humanities and technologies. Scientific revolution that, if completed, would not only imply an epistemological rupture, also a change of ontology and, in sum, a change of disciplinary matrix.

Keywords : Demarcation criterion; epistemological statute; dualism; systemism.

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