Four theses on philosophy in the 21st century

Abstract

In his book Sustainable Knowledge: A Theory of Interdisciplinarity, Robert Frodeman said: philosophy never been to our personal and public lives so necessary and, nevertheless, it has never been so far from society. But, at this very moment the philosophy has never been so marginalized. We should not ignore this assertion because it problematizes XXI century’s philosophy. Frodeman's proposal can be justified for two reasons: First, the relationship between companies-university has dissolved work´s collegiate; a situation that has made it difficult to do collegiate projects and to face the new challenges that appear in society; Second, philosophical’s practices and research endogamous.

To explain this orientation of Philosophy and to rethink an orientation of it, we propose four theses: first, a business and psycho-political analysis of philosophical's practices; second, the rethinking of philosophical’s problems; third, a rethinking of philosophical’s activities; and fourth, the orientation of research and philosophical practices to the canons of new forms of Knowledge’s production.