Transdisciplinary Pragmatism?

Abstract

In this paper, we will carry out an ongoing exploration of a phenomenon we chose to name Transdisciplinary    Pragmatism/TD–P. This phenomenon will be addressed by recognizing our intellective capacity as a continuous unveiling, an opening, a movement towards a reality that is by nature muti-dimensional and multi-referential.  In our investigation, we revisited the writings of Charles Sanders  Peirce  (1839–1914),  Martin  Heidegger (1889–1976), the epistemological, methodological and  ontological  pillars  of  Transdisciplinarity,  as well as three archetypal roots that invoke and evoke core principles of the proposed pragmatism: Tao Te Ching, Prometheus and Percival. We view TD–P as an event of appropriation: a creative and free act, original, present since forever, open to possibilities, but yet to be unconcealed. TD–P demands the articulation of the phenomenal method and the “trans” dimension inscribed in the transdisciplinary system of thought. We will also touch some aspects of the structural situation that make such pragmatism possible.