Isabelle Stengers
Professor Isabelle Stengers (born 1949), is a Belgian philosopher and is the daughter of the historian Jean Stengers. She graduated in chemistry at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Biography
Professor Stengers writes about the philosophy of science. Stengers holds her Professorship in the Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles[1] and received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993.[2] Stengers has written on English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead;[3] other work has included Continental philosophers such as Michel Serres and Gilbert Simondon. Stengers has collaborated in the past with other philosophers including Leon Chertok,[4] Ilya Prigogine,[5] and Bruno Latour.[6]
Partial bibliography
- La Nouvelle Alliance (1979), together with Ilya Prigogine
- Prigogine I and Stengers I Order out of Chaos, University of Michigan: Bantam Books (1984)
- Stengers I and Chertok L, "A critique of psychoanalytic reason: hypnosis as a scientific problem from Lavoisier to Lacan", Noel Evans M (trans.), Stanford: Stanford University Press (1992)
- Prigogine I and Stengers I The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature, Free Press (1997)
- Stengers I, Power and Invention: Situating Science, Bains P (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1997)
- Stengers I, The Invention of Modern Science, Smith D.W (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2000)
- Stengers I "Cosmopolitics I", Bononno, R (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010)
- Stengers I and Pignarre P Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell, Goffey A (Trans.), Palgrave Macmillan (2011)
References
- ^ See: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/stengers_cosmopoliticsI.html and http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/isabelle-stengers
- ^ See: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/stengers_science.html
- ^ Penser avec Whitehead, Paris, Le Seuil, « L’ordre philosophique », 2002.
- ^ A critique of psychoanalytic reason: hypnosis as a scientific problem from Lavoisier to Lacan, Noel Evans M (trans.), Stanford: Stanford University Press (1992)
- ^ Order out of Chaos, University of Michigan: Bantam Books (1984) and The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature, Free Press (1997)
- ^ See: Latour's forward to Stengers' Power and Invention, http://www.bruno-latour.fr/poparticles/poparticle/p070.html
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philosopher of science |
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