The relation of knowledge and power is a very important question in every age. The idea “knowledge is power” has a specific meaning as in the modern age science has a highly technological characteristic. Technology is familiar with power, science is not, it is a contemplative practice.
What is the technology of making good science? Is there a meta-technology and a meta-science, and of course, an interrelatedness. Yet, recent trends in philosophy of science and technology combine the elements of technological, philosophical and scientific meta-reflections often without any conscious reflection. Reaching a balanced position between these two is an important source of debates within philosophy of science.
There are many forms of „technicization” of sciences, which is based on disregarding or eliminating the philosophical constituent of sciences. As a possible motivation of technicization, a need for an ideology-free science can be identified. On the other hand, the fragmented world of the postmodern age yields to a postmodern science, which is a very technicized one, like to computer and information science/technology.
Eliminating technological constituents from science, the complicated role of philosophy in scientific practice becomes much clearer. The Kuhnian normal science does not think (however, normal scientists think), but the revolutionary science thinks.
