Cinta de Moebio: Revista de Epistemología de Ciencias Sociales

Aguirre, J. (2018) Boaventura de Sousa Santos y Paul Feyerabend sobre la proliferación de alternativas. Cinta moebio 61: 1-11. doi: 10.4067/S0717-554X2018000100001

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Paul Feyerabend about the proliferation of alternatives

Juan Carlos Aguirre-García (jcaguirre@unicauca.edu.co) Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad del Cauca (Popayán, Colombia) ORCID: 0000-0003-0938-2730

Abstract

In this paper I review the thesis about the proliferation of alternatives by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, from some criticisms to the thesis of the proliferation of theories by Paul Feyerabend. I claim that, though not in explicit way, there is an affinity between them, therefore the weakness from the second one affects the first one. However, the point is to show how some emergent proposals, as the ecology of knowledges, could benefit from a full epistemological discussion, instead of insisting on its counter-epistemological nature.

Keywords: Santos, epistemology, Feyerabend, proliferation, reason.