The Social Communication department of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts will promote on the 24th, in the LabCom Auditorium, at 5pm, the conference: “Epistemology as a Transformative Dimension”, taught by Prof. Dr. Efendy Maldonado, from Unisinos.
The conference addresses the transmethodological foundation of epistemology as a crucial strategic dimension of knowledge production modes; affirms the socio-historical and cultural character of scientific research, in its fruitful multi-contextual and multi-dimensional development. Reconstructs the philosophical, political, aesthetic and educational aspects of the epistemological world; in confrontation and dialogue with the logocentric arguments that grant the exclusivity of the scientific character to the positivist model.
It proposes cooperation with knowledge and paraconsistent knowledge, with a view to building and strengthening a strong and penetrating scientific field in Latin American social formations.
The Prof. Dr. Efendy Maldonado is a professor at the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences at Unisinos – RS, Cooperation Brazil – Spain UAB/Unisinos/UFRN/UFRGS. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences from USP and a Post-Doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a guest professor at several Brazilian and Latin American universities.
For more information, visit: http://www.cchla.ufrn.br/ppgem/