Abstract:

Contemporary scientific practice, new philosophical trends, and the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology, surpassing philosophical views of representationalism, offer man with new science and technology. But the digital technology extends the forms of practice from the realistic to the virtual, which, thereupon, changes the cognitive models of the science and technology. This transition makes the cognitive procedure of the science and technology into that of the describing, the constructive, and the virtual cognitions, pushing man's scientific and technological cognition into a brandnew step.

Key words: technological epistemology and methodology, scientific practice, technology practice, virtual practice

scientific epistemology and methodology