| Power and Invention: Situating Science Volume 10 Contributor(s): Stengers, Isabelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816625174 ISBN-13: 9780816625178 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: Using the law of thermodynamics, one of today's most penetrating and celebrated thinkers sets out to explain the consequences of nonlinear dynamics (or chaos theory) for philosophy and science. Concerned with the interplay between science, society, and power, Isabelle Stengers offers a unique perspective on the power of scientific theories to modify society, and vice versa. 9 diagrams. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 501 |
| LCCN: 97-21760 |
| Series: Theory Out of Bounds |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.98" W x 9.96" (1.05 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |