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?
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