The paper addresses the significant role that other forms of knowledge must play in the construction of alternatives to overcome the most pressing problems faced by today's global societies, namely: local and global environmental degradation, social inequality and inequity, and violent conflict at various scales. To do so, it characterizes and provides reasons to validate other forms of knowledge, particularly those anchored in the social experience of indigenous peoples, women, and laypeople, and advocates for an understanding of interdisciplinarity as an ethical-political agency obligated to open, for transformative purposes, paths of dialogue between such forms of knowledge and academic disciplines. The purpose of this dialogue is not other that catalyzing, through the effects of such forms of knowledge, the production of genuinely innovati...

After exploring the practical-political meaning that underlies the idea of ​​“cosmopolitics” and describing its impact on the transformative agendas of Latin America, its links with cosmopolitanism are explained. At the end, the work of the Dossier is briefly reviewed.  

This paper has three sections. Firstly, I explore what the term technoscience does mean. I justify the relevance of the term on both a) the empirical evidence that social studies of science bring up, and b) the philosophical redescription that Heidegger offers on the relationship between science and technique. Secondly, I show up the irony that emerge when we consider technoscience as [the] «factor of modernity». This irony arises, according to Gianni Vattimo, from «the transformation of the world in a place in where there are not facts anymore but interpretations. From this circumstance follows the transformation of the potential for domination of technoscience, which has occupied the critical work of the Frankfurters, into the normative ideal of reducing violence. Finally, I show how this ideal should be understood: the ideal of reducing violence must be understood as care. Followin...

The paper addresses the significant role that other forms of knowledge must play in the construction of alternatives to overcome the most pressing problems faced by today's global societies, namely: local and global environmental degradation, social inequality and inequity, and violent conflict at various scales. To do so, it characterizes and provides reasons to validate other forms of knowledge, particularly those anchored in the social experience of indigenous peoples, women, and laypeople, and advocates for an understanding of interdisciplinarity as an ethical-political agency obligated to open, for transformative purposes, paths of dialogue between such forms of knowledge and academic disciplines. The purpose of this dialogue is not other that catalyzing, through the effects of such forms of knowledge, the production of genuinely innovative visions and practices in the face of the c...

After exploring the practical-political meaning that underlies the idea of ​​“cosmopolitics” and describing its impact on the transformative agendas of Latin America, its links with cosmopolitanism are explained. At the end, the work of the Dossier is briefly reviewed.

Este trabajo se desarrolla en tres partes. En la primera defiendo la pertinencia de la expresión tecnociencia. Justifico la pertinencia del término tanto en a) la evidencia empírica que arrojan los estudios científico-sociales en ciencia y tecnología, como en b) la redescripción filosófica que sobre la relación entre ciencia y técnica ofrece Heidegger. En la segunda, pongo de manifiesto la ironía que emerge al considerar la tecnociencia como «factor de modernidad». Esta ironía surge, de acuerdo con Gianni Vattimo, de «la transformación del mundo en un lugar donde ya no hay hechos sino interpretaciones». De esta circunstancia se desprende la transformación del potencial de dominación de la tecnociencia, que ha ocupado el trabajo crítico de los frankfurtianos, en el ideal normativo de reducción de la violencia. En la última parte muestro cómo debe comprenderse este id...

This paper has three sections. Firstly, I explore what the term technoscience does mean. I justify the relevance of the term on both a) the empirical evidence that social studies of science bring up, and b) the philosophical redescription that Heidegger offers on the relationship between science and technique. Secondly, I show up the irony that emerge when we consider technoscience as [the] «factor of modernity». This irony arises, according to Gianni Vattimo, from «the transformation of the world in a place in where there are not facts anymore but interpretations. From this circumstance follows the transformation of the potential for domination of technoscience, which has occupied the critical work of the Frankfurters, into the normative ideal of reducing violence. Finally, I show how this ideal should be understood: the ideal of reducing violence must be understood as care. Followin...

The paper addresses the significant role that other forms of knowledge must play in the construction of alternatives to overcome the most pressing problems faced by today's global societies, namely: local and global environmental degradation, social inequality and inequity, and violent conflict at various scales. To do so, it characterizes and provides reasons to validate other forms of knowledge, particularly those anchored in the social experience of indigenous peoples, women, and laypeople, and advocates for an understanding of interdisciplinarity as an ethical-political agency obligated to open, for transformative purposes, paths of dialogue between such forms of knowledge and academic disciplines. The purpose of this dialogue is not other that catalyzing, through the effects of such forms of knowledge, the production of genuinely innovati...

After exploring the practical-political meaning that underlies the idea of ??“cosmopolitics” and describing its impact on the transformative agendas of Latin America, its links with cosmopolitanism are explained. At the end, the work of the Dossier is briefly reviewed.