ABSTRACT
The nature of scientific practice involves another extremely important issue, namely the normativity of philosophy of scientific practice itself. The hermeneutical features of the concept of scientific practice are presented not only in the style but also in the elaborations of explanation. Joseph Rouse describes several characteristics of scientific practice in the hermeneutics way. Compared to the traditional view of scientific knowledge, the view of scientific practice always holds that scientific knowledge is necessarily located within practices. According to Rouse, the viewpoint of the agent is very important for understanding scientific practices. There is something wrong with the social constructivist accounts of scientific practice. There is a tendency in philosophy, sociology and historiography of science to reduce the linguistic dimensions of scientific practice to something like ‘rhetorical force’ or ‘literary technology’. One can emphasize the materiality of scientific practice consonant with the work of the ‘practice industry’, while justifying the discursive richness of scientific practices.
