Conservación, desarrollo, aprovechamiento social
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tradicionales en México

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Problems addressed

In very broad terms, epistemology has had as its purpose to understand what knowledge is and which the reasons are to point it out as genuine knowledge. This clearly leads to a dissertation about the nature, justification and methodology by which we obtain knowledge. From a pluralist perspective, this dissertation can only be made by paying attention to the ends, values, principles and norms that form part of the communities that produce such knowledge and that, by doing so, establish and constitute ways of life. This implies that different groups of people know the world from different conceptual frameworks, that they are subject to an axiological-normative structure and, thus, they carry out different types of practice.

Here it becomes apparent that there is a series of problems related to the FONCICYT project, such as:

1. What we understand as traditional knowledge;
2. when we accept that something is knowledge;
3. how knowledge is transmitted;
4. what the practices are in which knowledge is generated;
5. how different knowledge systems coexist and what their interaction form is;
6. how the production of certain types of knowledge underlies communities identities.

Methodology

To achieve our objectives we have organized seminars that take place every fortnight at the Philosophy Research Institute (IIF) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Seminar participants:

Ambrosio Velasco, Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz, Melina Gastélum, Mónica Gómez, Raúl Alcalá, Rocío Montané, Gerardo Mora, Marcela Tovar, Adriana Murguía, Iskra García, Adalberto De Hoyos, Ricardo Sandoval, León Olivé, Jorge Dettmer, Paulina Camarena, MariCarmen Gómez