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Professor Isabelle Stengers

Professor of Philosophy, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Research Interests

Isabelle Stengers is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels and a Distinguished Member of the National Committee of Logic and the History of Philosophy of Sciences in Belgium . She is author of numerous books and articles on the history of science, the theory of systems, and psychoanalysis, including most recently Penser Avec Whitehead. She received the prize for Philosophy at the Académie Française in 1993.

Recent Publications

Books:

  1. (2002) Penser Avec Whitehead: Une Libre et Sauvage Création de Concepts , Paris: Seuil.
  2. (2000) The Invention of Modern Science , translated by Daniel W. Smith, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  3. (1998) Power and Invention: Situating Science , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  4. (1992) with Lion Chertok and Martha Noel Evans (Translator) A Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Hypnosis as a Science Problem from Lavoisier to Lacan , Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  5. (1985) with Ilya Prigogine Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature , London: Flamingo.