DILEMMAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EPISTEMOLOGY

• Main Author: Munir Jorge Felício
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2016-12-01
• Series: Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
• Subjects: capitalismo; desenvolvimento; epistemologia ambiental; questão ambiental; teoria do fetichismo.
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/22869

The perception crisis as part of the scientific knowledge crisis is expanded by inversions caused by merchandise development. They are interdependent dimensions of the environmental epistemology dilemmas which have been analyzed in this study, such as the customization of goods and the reification of people. These and other inversions obstruct the understanding of essential aspects relating to the current environmental issues, arising from a particular development model driven by production and consumption. Environmental epistemology is part of a science driven by the permanent conflict due to the inversion that maintains the inverted reality since the development of merchandise. Such science constitutes itself through interdisciplinary exercise, having in knowledge dialogue its own dynamism.