materialism

The ways social theorists conceptualize the material world influences their approach to conceiving and addressing the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. This article uses panpsychist theory, which holds that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the natural world, as a way of conceptualizing and developing responses to these challenges. This is done by contrasting panpsychist conceptions of materiality and consciousness with those of vital materialism and property dualist historical materialism.

En este texto reflexionamos sobre los aportes de los denominados materialismos a la concepción epistemológica de nuestro programa de investigación. Nos orientan las siguientes preguntas: ¿qué puntos comunes podemos identificar entre autores de las corrientes denominadas materialistas, tales que enriquecen nuestra construcción epistemológica, con efectos metodológicos y teóricos?