Environmental sciences as interdisciplinary and its resultant problem: incommensurability

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of interdisciplinarity in environmental sciences from the philosophy of science proposed by Thomas S. Kuhn: incommensurabilities. For which it is taken up if environmental sciences can exist multidisciplinaryly and they are characterized as having a specific interdisciplinarity: of third culture (by linking the natural and the social). The result of the above would be the existence of incommensurabilities, so its characteristics are described and we present examples of these that are relevant to the area. The value of the research lies in the fact that, once the existence of incommensurabilities is revealed, it will be easier for the environmental scientist to identify them and deal with them appropriately in order to address and resolve the environmental issue, not through a "common language", but through translation.