Transdisciplinary Enactive Realism: Towards an Ontology of the Leib and Epistemic Translation in the Sociosanitary Ecosystem
Background: The historical fracture between biomedical positivism and social constructivism has perpetuated an epistemic schizophrenia, reducing the human body either to a molecular machine (Körper) or to a discursive epiphenomenon, thus obscuring the structural roots of illness. This study establishes a rigorous metatheoretical framework to overcome this fragmentation. Methods: We employ a dialectical-transdisciplinary epistemological matrix—integrating Peircean abduction and negative dialectics as vectors of conceptual translation—to map the intersection between natural/medical sciences and social theories without falling into reductionisms. Results: The analysis demonstrates that health and illness constitute stratified complex wholes where structural violence and biological somatization (such as allostatic load) co-determine one another. Likewise, it deconstructs the technocratic neutrality of the medical model, proving that clinical practice must reintegrate the lived body (Leib). Conclusions: We propose an innovative paradigm—Transdisciplinary Enactive Realism—that bridges empirical evidence and hermeneutic meaning, providing a holistic, critical, and humanized foundation for contemporary sociosanitary ecosystems.
Authors
- Carlos Durantez‐Fernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9388-8074)
- María de los Ángeles Navarro Perán (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-9391)
- José Manuel Hernández Garre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-3121)
- Isabel Morales Moreno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1528-984X)
- Baldomero de Maya Sánchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8950-295X)
- Rosa María Cárdaba García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2532-8307)
- Verónica Velasco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4739-9760)
- María Inmaculada Pérez Soto
- Ma Dolores Pereñíguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8321-3128)
- María José Ferreira Díaz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9046-9560)
- Lucía Pérez Pérez
- Mitzi Letelier
Institutions
- Universidad de Valladolid (ES)
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
- Universidad Católica de Murcia (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Philosophies
- Published
- 2026-10-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies11050190
- Primary Topic
- Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00