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.

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Philosophies
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2026-10-14
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https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies11050190
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Medicine, History, and Philosophy
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Transdisciplinary Enactive Realism: Towards an Ontology of the Leib and Epistemic Translation in the Sociosanitary Ecosystem

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Transdisciplinary Enactive Realism: Towards an Ontology of the Leib and Epistemic Translation in the Sociosanitary Ecosystem

Carlos Durantez‐Fernández, María de los Ángeles Navarro Perán, José Manuel Hernández Garre, Isabel Morales Moreno, Baldomero de Maya Sánchez, Rosa María Cárdaba García, Verónica Velasco, María Inmaculada Pérez Soto, Ma Dolores Pereñíguez, María José Ferreira Díaz, Lucía Pérez Pérez, Mitzi Letelier
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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.

PhilosophiesVol. 11(5)
Universidad de Valladolid (ES), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES), Universidad Católica de Murcia (ES)
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