The philosophy of energy as an interdisciplinary field to think about Brazil

Abstract

In the article we expose the trajectory of the proposition of building an Energy Philosophy for Brazil. Research on Philosophy of Technology led us to try to understand the relationship between energy and technology, between technical design and energy source, and the relationship between productive forces, therefore, economic production and energy. This led us to formulate a problem and look for theoretical references to face it. The article tells this story. In it we propose three aspects to build a minimum framework for the Philosophy of Energy: the topic of Nature, which addresses biophysical theories of energy and epistemological problems for constructing the concept of energy; the topic of Culture, which addresses the relationship between energy systems and cultural systems; and the topic of techno-economics, which addresses the role of energy in economic production and its relationship to the energy system characterized by the phases of conversion, production, consumption, creation that determine the way in which human societies use energy, the main cause of the climate crisis.