ABSTRACT
Pablo González Casanova approached the theories of complex systems that began to change the way of conceiving knowledge, science, technology, culture, politics, and the world. Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics, Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s general systems theory, Ilya Prigogine’s theory of dissipative structures, and Jean Piaget’s genetic epistemology were presented as the main epistemological innovations in the debate on systems theory, interdisciplinarity, and complexity studies. For González Casanova: “Today we can no longer think about nature, life and humanity without considering the discoveries that began with cybernetics, genetic epistemology, computation, self-regulating, adaptive and autopoietic systems, deterministic chaos sciences, attractors and fractals. The depth of these discoveries goes beyond their clear scientific and technical manifestations; it includes new ways of thinking and acting that comprise the so-called complexity sciences and technoscience”. Las nuevas ciencias y las humanidades: De la academia a la política (The New Sciences and the Humanities), a work that took him more than 10 years of reflection, distinguishes two hegemonic paradigms in science: the mechanical paradigm that was consolidated in the seventeenth century and the technoscience and sciences of complexity that emerged strongly in the second half of the twentieth century. Here we investigate not only the way in which González Casanova proposes the study of the new sciences in their link with the humanities but also whether there are intellectual links with the theory of complexity.
