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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?

Who reads Power and Invention: Situating Science (Volume 10) (Theory Out Of Bounds)?

Author

Isabelle Stengers

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816625161

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Stem

Rating

4.7 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14