Power and Invention: Situating Science Volume 10 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816625178)

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?

Author: Isabelle Stengers
ISBN-10: 0816625174
ISBN-13: 9780816625178
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1997
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.96h x 6.98w x 0.55d