PHENOMENOLOGY AND DISCOURSE ON SCIENCES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN EDMUND HUSSERL AND BOAVENTURA

Abstract

This work, bibliographic and comparative, proposes an analysis of two fundamental works in the field of Epistemology/Philosophy of science: A Crisis of European Sciences: the transcendental phenomenology (1984), by the philosopher Edmund Husserl and, A Discourse on Science (2006), by sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos. As for the methodology, this work is divided into two parts. In the first, analyze the work of Husserl (1984) and his contribution on the economic crisis and phenomenology as an epistemological alternative. In the second, a discussion is proposed about the dominant scientific paradigm and about the emerging scientific paradigm proposed by Boaventura (2006). The results pointed to theoretical-methodological shifts in the advanced conceptual bases of the positive science model that predominate both in Natural / Exact Sciences and in the beginning of Social / Human Sciences. For example, a phenomenology presents itself as an epistemological possibility of (re) invention of modern science, subsidizing the construction of a new scientific model.