O resgate da epistemologia

Abstract

Over the past three decades, the project of epistemology has undergone a process which has critiqued and transformed it. This process has been stamped successively by the transfer of epistemic sovereignty to the ‘social’, by the re-discovery of ontology and by attention paid to constitutive normativity and the political implications of knowledge. It is even the case that abandoning epistemology as a philosophical project was mooted. In counterpoint to this process, the proposal began to gain contours for another epistemology rooted in the experiences of the global South.This article sets out to explore the possibilities of creating a space for dialogue between the (‘naturalist’, feminist, post-colonial, epistemographic, epistopic, etc.) critique of epistemology as a philosophical project and the proposal for an epistemology of the South formulated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, taking as a point of departure a revisiting of philosophical pragmatism as the most radical form of critiquing conventional epistemology.

Keywords

• Boaventura de Sousa Santos
• epistemology of the South
• modern science
• knowledge
• pragmatism