Technoscience: Conceptual Framework

Abstract

The article analyzes the conceptual system of technoscience as an interdisciplinary field that is still forming and requires defining its place within modern scientific culture, the activities of scientists, and its impact on the social sphere and consumers of its products. The author examines the peculiarities of the subject and object of technoscience, its ontocognitive and praxeological concepts, and the concepts of logic and language in technoscience. The author posits that analyzing the conceptual foundations of thinking provides an outline of the cognitive process in its general categorical forms, enabling an understanding of the essence and authentic meaning of the phenomenon under study, encompassing both existing and contextual knowledge, and clarifying the function of knowledge objects within the culture of thinking. The study employs methods of categorical analysis, explication, conceptualization of notions, and comparison. The source base includes works that consider technoscience as knowledge oriented toward practical use, address the sociocultural consequences of its spread, and highlight issues of conceptualization, logical, and substantive analysis of technoscience. The scientific novelty of the study lies in its conceptualization as an expression of the general picture of cognition of a new, controversial phenomenon like technoscience, complementing the phenomenological descriptions prevalent in modern literature. Understanding the conceptual system of technoscience involves representing the essence of processes, phenomena, and events at the level of theoretical constructions rather than empirical generalizations. It is established that the conceptual system of technoscience is characterized by the hybridity of ontological, cognitive, and praxeological concepts, network interaction, and the integrity of the categorical universe of scientific knowledge. The praxeological orientation of technoscience necessitates engaging with the ideas of eupraxophy, which integrate existential values, moral principles, rational methods, logic, and science.