O pragmatismo é apresentado como uma atitude anti-representacionista, isto é, como uma crítica à idéia de fundamentação do conhecimento ou da verdade. Esta crítica torna-se possível a partir de uma interpretação funcional para o problema do conhecimento, segundo a qual…

Os problemas do conhecimento humanoe sua relação com a linguagem, objetos clássicos da análise filosófica, receberam no final do século XIX e ao longo do século XX um tratamento original no pensamento moderno, com a chamada virada Iingüistica também designada…

Based on the notion of language-game, as formulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the relation ship between language, individual practice, belief and knowledge is examined. Knowing is identified as context-adjusted behavior, under learning or extended exercise, while beliefs are considered as dispositional…

The paper examines the transition process which are living at present sciences, Social and Physics, in the world. The prevailing model of science int the 21 st century, characterized by a positivist view of fragmentation and hiperspecialization in all fields…

This paper critically analyzes the cognitive-map concept in terms oh) its subjectivity, as seen in the characterization of environmental knowledge as “images” of the world; b) its use of the information-processing approach in modeling environmental perception; c) its restricted representation…

Based on the theoretical work of Ribes and López (1985) and on Ribes' formulations about intelligent behavior (Ribes, 1981, 1990), the categories of didactic discourse that facilitate its development, are described. These are: a) a varied drill with feedback by…

Partiendo del concepto radicalmente conductista de Fuentes de contingencia discriminada-generalizada, que recoge el carácter co-presente de la conducta en cuanto que proceso fenoménico-operatorio de logro, se procede a desglosarlo en el conocimiento y el afecto, que son las características básicas…

The accelerated internationalization of today's society forces Social Sciences to find new methods and ways to study international reality, and to reinforce its theoretical and methodological tools in order to offer the appropiate answers to a globalizated society. The discipline…

The article presents a methodological framework to investigate the social world from a transdisciplinary perspective. It deals with the preponderance of the national-statal approach of almost all Social Sciences, as well as the manner in which the complex social world…

The dymaics of the current international situation poses challenges and problems never before known in the other stages of history that mankind has experienced. Therefore, Social Sciences, in general, and International Relations, in particular, face new challenges for the proper…