Pedro Cárcamo Petridis

Pedro Cárcamo Petridis

Pedro Cárcamo Petridis holds a degree in Sociology with a minor in Social Sciences (Diego Portales University, Chile, 2020) and an award-winning thesis supervised by Dr. Darío Rodríguez Mansilla. He also holds a Diploma in Humanities and a Master's Degree in Contemporary Thought: Philosophy and Political Thought (Diego Portales University, Chile, 2023), with a thesis supervised by Dr. Ovidiu Stanciu and awarded the highest distinction. Since October 2024, Pedro has been a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Barcelona – CECUPS, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Wagner and the tutoring of Dr. Rommy Morales Olivares. His project, Nostalgia for the Future. Artificial Intelligence in the Process of Normative Self-transformation of Contemporary Society, seeks to theorise about the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence on science and culture, developing a strictly sociological point of view on artificial intelligence that allows for an analysis of the relationship between technological functionality, normativity and social organisation. This project is funded through the Chilean Scholarship Programme of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) under the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile. His academic work has appeared in volumes published by Springer and academic journals such as Technophany, the Journal of the Master's Degree in Applied Systemic Analysis for Society (MAD) and Castalia, where he has developed topics related to social theory, conceptual sociology, sociology of science and technology, the intersection between philosophy and cybernetics, and social systems theory.

Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. . When philosophy becomes cybernetics and cybernetics becomes philosophy: Luhmann's systems theory as the foundation for twenty-first century cybernetics.. echnophany, A Journal for Philosophy and Technology. 2 (1). 1-22.

This article examines the intersection of philosophy and cybernetics, proposing Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory as a crucial foundation for renewed cybernetics in the twenty- first century. By revisiting Norbert Wiener’s foundational insights and reinterpreting key cybernetic principles, it explores how Luhmann’s second-order observation and the concept of meaning challenge the traditional…

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Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. Andrea Silva-Tapia., Rommy Morales-Olivares. . The Concept of Dignity. Global Handbook of Inequality. Cham. Springer. 471-499.

This chapter outlines the main debates on the meaning of human dignity from Western humanist thought and perspective. These debates have edges and complexities that, although they began in antiquity, are still ongoing and open. The various tensions that accompany the debate make it impossible to reach a consensus on the character of human dignity. Rather than resolving these tensions in order…

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Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. . La cultura como autodescripción de la sociedad funcionalmente diferenciada. MAD Revista del Magíster en Análisis Sistémico aplicado a la Sociedad. 48. 67-81.
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Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. . Sloterdijk, un cibernético: Sobre la influencia de Luhmann en el pensamiento de Sloterdijk. 117.
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Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. Rommy Morales-Olivares., Andrea Silva-Tapia . . Debates históricos-conceptuales de la dignidad: Una observación del horizonte político y normativo. Revista Castalia. 40. 125-152.

This article outlines the main debates on the concept of dignity in thought using Reinhardt Koselleck's conceptual history methodology. These debates present dimensions and complexities that, although they began in antiquity, are still ongoing and open. The various tensions that accompany the debate make it impossible to reach a consensus on the character of dignity; moreover, the concept has…

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Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. . La relación individuo-sociedad en la teoría de sistemas de Niklas Luhmann. MAD. 41. 56-67.

This articleis oriented around the inquiry about the type of relationship that exists between the individual and society in systems theory. The characterizations of systems theory as a conflationist theory based on a negative anthropology are presented and discussed. It is then shown, as an alternative, a positive interpretation of the human being based on an operational primacy of the…

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