Power and Invention: Situating Science - Couverture souple

Stengers, Isabelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816625174 ISBN 13 : 9780816625178

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Synopsis

One of the most penetrating and celebrated thinkers writing about the philosophy of science today, Isabelle Stengers here provides a firsthand account of the meeting of science and history. Concerned with the force and inventiveness of those theories, Power and Invention offers a unique perspective on the power of scientific theories to modify society, and vice versa.

Using the law of thermodynamics, Stengers sets out to explain the consequences of nonlinear dynamics (or chaos theory) for philosophy and science. She makes a case for the concept of complexity that transcends the conventional boundaries of scientific discourse and that clearly exposes the risks of scientific theories. Among the questions she confronts are: Is psychoanalysis a science? Is there such a thing as "women's science"? What are scientific theories?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Isabelle Stengers Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816625174
• ISBN 13: 9780816625178
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible