From the philosophy of science to philosophy of technoscience

This paper describes the changes in philosophy of science during the second half of the XXth century. It starts with the logical positivism and it comments the naturalistic, historicist and cognitive turns, together with the CTS conception of science and technology. It claims that a philosophy of scientific knowledge is not sufficient to analyze and reconstruct contemporary technoscience, which differs in many aspects of modern science. Consequently, it proposes a philosophy of scientific and technoscientific practice, by linking closely the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology.