La utilidad de la filosofía: Una perspectiva pragmatista sobre su incidencia social

Mario Gensollen Mendoza

doi:10.29105/aitias6.6-138

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Mario Gensollen Mendoza Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5438-452X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29105/aitias6.6-138

Palabras clave:

filosofía pública, pragmatismo, incidencia social, democracia, ciencia y valores

Resumen

En los últimos años, la filosofía ha enfrentado cuestionamientos recurrentes sobre su utilidad social y su aparente aislamiento académico. Frente a diagnósticos que la presentan como una disciplina crecientemente autorreferencial y desconectada de los problemas públicos, este artículo propone repensar la incidencia social de la filosofía desde una perspectiva pragmatista amplia. A partir de un análisis crítico de debates contemporáneos sobre filosofía pública y filosofía aplicada, se defiende que la utilidad de la filosofía no puede evaluarse mediante un único criterio. El artículo desarrolla un modelo en tres niveles de incidencia social —individual y comunitaria, institucional y epistémica, y cultural y mitológica— inspirado en las obras de John Dewey, Philip Kitcher y Mary Midgley. Este enfoque permite reconocer distintos modos legítimos en los que la filosofía contribuye a la vida democrática, la gobernanza del conocimiento y la clarificación moral, sin reducir su valor a la productividad técnica inmediata.

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