The Re-enchantment of Science or the Recovery of Normativity as a Philosophical Contribution of STS to Governance
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In The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies, Steve Fuller invokes the Weberian concept of "re-enchantment" to suggest how science should be transformed in order to better fulfill its goal of serving society. Today, science is an enterprise lacking a deep, coherent sense of meaning, despite its immeasurable impact on the daily lives of citizens. Without losing its technological effectiveness, the cost of having a "disenchanted" science is the failure to provide a scientific defense of human freedom—something that goes beyond the concept of technoscience and takes us into the realm of values and normativity. It should be understood that speaking of normativity from the perspective of science, technology, and society studies (STS) carries different implications than normativity as understood in analytic philosophical approaches.
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