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In this paper we intend to briefly analyze the idea of dialogue of knowledge, translation, and hegemonic articulation. We will examine some of their dimensions and explore their possibilities for eventual development, through an exercise of discovering the critical relations between them. The central thesis is that they are notions that are non-exclusive amongst themselves, yet they are not equivalent. Rather, they correspond to distinct levels of contact and articulation among sociocultural differences. Recognizing these differences, as well as the possible relations between these concepts, could lead to fertile advances in the task of reflection and the collective construction of alternative forms of intercultural contact that are more just, equal, and democratic, during a time when global neoliberal capitalism has acquired expressions ever more expansive, colonialist, and predatory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I analyze the main arguments and counterarguments proposed by realists and anti-realists stances for and against the scientific ability to produce objective and true scientific knowledge about the social and natural world. I argue that the theoretical and observational language which social and natural scientists use to refer to several scientific observable and unobservable entities, phenomena, properties and processes are determined, in practice, by their theoretical research traditions. This shows that scientific methodology depends so heavily on scientific theories that is, at most, a constructive procedure and not a discovery procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]