Banca de DEFESA: CARLOS EDUARDO CAMPOS FREIRE

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CARLOS EDUARDO CAMPOS FREIRE
DATE: 20/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório 01 do PPGEd - NEPSA II
TITLE:

EPIGENÉTICA, BIOLOGIA E SABERES DA TRADIÇÃO: Uma ética para as ciências e para a vida

KEY WORDS:

Life; Biology; Epigenetics; Complexity; Knowledge of Tradition.

PAGES: 135
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

Life exists and happens from a varied set of interrelationships and interdependencies, so that to define it only from what is scrutinized, observable and manipulable in the laboratory is a kind of reductionism that serves much more to confirm the theoretical and epistemological assumptions of biology as a discipline than to describe what it actually means to live and be alive. Thus, in the name of a more adequate understanding of reality and in the search for elaborating discourses that recognize its weaknesses in order to avoid false self-sufficiency, it becomes necessary to broaden perspectives in order to conceive and recognize the importance of elements that escape the institutional and disciplinary control of scientific techniques. This thesis is dedicated to this commitment of broadening the interpretative and discursive repertoire, in order to criticize the determinism characteristic of Biological Sciences and offer alternatives to this determinism based on the reflections raised by epigenetics, a relatively recent branch of studies, researches and productions in the history of Biology, whose emergence and consolidation in the academic community confronted the theoretical paradigms that were previously treated as definitive. For this branch of studies, living beings and their particularities are defined both by internal aspects and by multiple external aspects, that is, living organisms are constituted from correlations between environment and ambience, between survival conditions and individual characteristics, so that each one of these terms is both cause and effect of the ways of life and the features that each living being has. In making this discussion, this paper presents the historical landmarks and the main assumptions of biology and epigenetics to demonstrate the possible openings that the latter allows to the rationality of the former. In this sense, the text elaborates a bibliographical review on the themes and presents its exponents, discusses their ideas and tensions them in order to compose a general panorama of the themes and the most important questions involving these fields of knowledge, using figures and graphics to illustrate each of the sustained points. Besides the literature review, this research also resorted to the knowledge of tradition as a fundamental experience for relating to and better understanding nature and what lives. This knowledge, in this thesis, was represented by Francisco Lucas da Silva and his close relationship with the Lagoa do Piató, in Assú, Rio Grande do Norte. Through descriptions of daily life and transcriptions of practices and knowledge, it was possible to conclude that in nature only the complex exists, that is, that which is formed by many parts that, though distinct, are interconnected, so that all things that can be presented as simple are, in fact, simplified and fragmented data of reality. It is necessary, therefore, to reform thinking to meet the needs of ethical and political change. Therefore, more than a theoretical contribution, this thesis, with reference to Complexity Science, proposes agendas for another way of thinking, being and understanding.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - CARLOS ALDEMIR FARIAS DA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - JAIR MOISES DE SOUSA - UFCG
Interna - ***.302.644-** - JOSINEIDE SILVEIRA DE OLIVEIRA - UERN
Presidente - ***.088.024-** - MARIA DA CONCEICAO XAVIER DE ALMEIDA - UFRN
Externa à Instituição - PATRICIA LIMAVERDE NASCIMENTO - UECE
Interno - 3280986 - WALTER PINHEIRO BARBOSA JUNIOR