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Controversy spaces. The dialectical nature of change in the sciences and philosophy [Los espacios controversiales. La naturaleza dialéctica del cambio en las ciencias y la filosofía]

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  • 1. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina

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The paper outlines the model of controversy spaces. The model of controversy spaces integrates two different elements of the dialectical tradition. On the one hand, dialectics in its ancient meaning: the practice of controversial dialogue. On the other hand, the model incorporates dialectics understood as a pattern of change in intellectual history, based on the confrontation between opposite standpoints. I will be argued in this paper, the dialectical tradition was almost completely left aside in modernity and substituted by a monolectic approach. The model that will be outlined below aims at overcoming this view by focusing on the emergence, development and transformation of controversy spaces.

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