This article raises issues of science, politics, economics and ethics. The first section presents the ontological transition from the first Copernican revolution to the second Copernican revolution in the global study of sustainability and the ethics of climate change. The second section describes the «Giddens’s paradox» and the Hilbertian program of the Earth System Science, that presuppose a paradigmatic challenge. Finally, the third section links this methodological challenge to the description of the «post-normal science» and the «transdisciplinarity chain» in a (...) post-Kuhnian epistemology.  . (shrink)

_This article presents the main ethical challenges faced by social work professionals in Spain during the "first wave" of COVID-19 in 2020. The pandemic had a serious impact not only on the health sector, but also in the field of social work. During this time, social workers had to address serious ethical questions regarding issues such as confidentiality breaches, how to fairly distribute available resources, the lack of personal contact and emotional connection with the service users, the difficulties of working (...) in isolation and online, doubts about the reliability of the information they were handling and the difficulty of making proper diagnoses. An international research group led by Dr. Sara Banks conducted a broader research project in collaboration with the International Federation of Social Workers, which collected information through an online questionnaire aimed at social workers from various countries. In this article we analyse the results related to the main ethical challenges faced by social workers in Spain. The research group identified two types of ethical challenges that they have separated into two sections: the first section is related to direct intervention with users, which includes topics such as the lack of emotional support, reliability, use of technology, the appropriate care, compliance with the highest professional standards, confidentiality, vulnerability, and the fair distribu-tion of resources. The other section is related to the ethical challenges around the daily work within social entities, which involved dealing with issues such as the e-social work and coordination difficulties, the management of pressure in social bodies and changes in the intervention methodology__._ _Keywords_: Social work ethics, pandemic, international research, COVID. (shrink)

Este artículo explora las maneras en las que podemos desarrollar una nueva epistemología de la innovación dentro del marco de nuevas metodologías axiológicas frente a la "destrucción creativa" (Joseph A. Schumpeter) y la "destrucción destructiva" (Boaventura de Sousa Santos). El autor presenta la "c..

Investigación interdisciplinar sobre el debate de la globalización desde una perspectiva filosófica y reflexiva a partir de dos hipótesis metodológicas: «Qué significa pensar dentro de la globalización y qué supone pensar la globalización». Para ello se exploran los problemas del ser humano dentro del creciente proceso de mundialización, así como algunas vías que conduzcan a posibles alternativas y soluciones en este nuevo contexto planetario.

Este artículo explora las formas en las que podemos desarrollar la sostenibilidad y el conocimiento dentro de un marco general para nuevas estrategias y metodologías integradoras en un mundo global. Se argumenta que para este proceso es necesario superar la visión habitual de la responsabilidad a pa..

This article explores the interrelationship among scientific knowledge, ethical debates and the question of responsibility through sustainability thinking. In a globalising world which appears to be establishing itself, sustainability should form the basis for achieving a new ethics, shared on both a local and global scale. The sustainability culture should become an integral part in this process, in which the rights of future generations, of non-human species and global shared resources are taken into account. Sustainable culture is, in fact, an (...) inevitable process that will involve changes in many of the established stances of society, science and ethics. (shrink)

Esta obra colectiva presenta un compendio de textos que abordan la problemática de la globalización desde diversos ángulos reflexivos, como la economía, la política, la tecnología o el arte. Se trata de un libro poliédrico en cuanto a su forma, pero profundo en su reflexión filosófica. Sus editores lo han estructurado en cinco secciones pensadas para el ámbito de habla hispana, tanto en América como en Europa:1) Historia de fenómenos culturales de la globalización2) Mass media, tecnologías au..