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Power and Invention - Situating Science (Paperback): Isabelle Stengers

Power and Invention - Situating Science (Paperback)

Isabelle Stengers

Series: Theory Out Of Bounds

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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?

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Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Theory Out Of Bounds
Release date: October 1997
First published: October 1997
Authors: Isabelle Stengers
Dimensions: 255 x 179 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2517-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Chaos theory
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Thermodynamics
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LSN: 0-8166-2517-4
Barcode: 9780816625178

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