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En este artículo el autor expone de manera sintética los contenidos fundamentales y las principales conclusiones de su libro “¿Una nueva ciencia? Una lectura crítica de ‘La Méthode’ de Edgar Morin”. El libro, publicado en sueco, tiene como eje el análisis del proyecto de Morin de una “scienza nuova” basada en un conocimiento del conocimiento, tal y como lo desarrolla en los primeros cuatro volúmenes de “El método”, que eran los que se habían publicado cuando el autor realizó la tesis doctoral de la que el libro es fruto. El autor, desde un enfoque contextualista, critica la ambivalencia en la que, a su juicio, incurren los planteamientos de Morin sobre la cuestión de la relación de la ciencia con los contextos sociales en que se produce y la tendencia de Morin a incurrir en el objetivismo. Relaciona esos planteamientos con el determinismo mecánico que Morin –desacertadamente– atribuye al “sociologismo” y a la sociología del conocimiento., In this article the author exposes in a synthetic way the fundamental contents and the main conclusions of his book “A new science? A critical reading of Edgar Morin's 'La Méthode' ". The book, published in Swedish, has as its axis the analysis of Morin's project of a "scienza nuova" based on a knowledge of knowledge, as he develops it in the first four volumes of "The Method", which were the ones that were had been published when the author wrote the doctoral thesis from which the book is the fruit. The author, from a contextualist approach, criticizes the ambivalence in which, in his opinion, Morin's approaches incur on the question of the relationship of science with the social contexts in which it occurs and Morin's tendency to incur in the objectivism. He relates these approaches to the mechanical determinism that Morin –unwisely– attributes to “sociologism” and the sociology of knowledge., Grupo de investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Antropología, Geografía e Historia. Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Filosofía II. Universidad de Granada.

International audience; Several approaches and corresponding definitions of complexity have been developed in different fields. Urban systems are the archetype of complex socio-technical systems concerned with these different viewpoints. We suggest in this chapter some links between three types of complexity, namely emergence, computational complexity and informational complexity. We discuss the implication of these links on the necessity of reflexivity to produce a knowledge of the complex, and how this connects to the interdisciplinary of approaches in particular for socio-technical systems. We finally synthesize this positioning as a proposal of an epistemological framework called applied perspectivism, and discuss the implications for the study of urban systems.