This article has the objective of stimulate the discussion about new ways of comprehending/discussing the world with scientific-epistemic recourses. For that very reason this study enlists and analyses new forms of scientifical acquaintence with the world, based on emergent paradigms in sciences, just as Bertalanfy's systems theory, theory of auto-organization of Ilya Prigogine, Henri Atlan and Edgar Morin, the random and necessity theory of Monod, the autopoiesis theory of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, with theirs epistemological and also educational possibilities. The reconstructive method is used, that is, different theoretical authors, different theories are placed in dialogue with the objective of supplying argumen tative support to the main thesis of this article.
Paradigms in science; environment; complexity