Autor: Isabelle Stengers

Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific com …

Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific com …

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influenc …

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influenc …

»Es wird unerträglich werden!« – Medizinische Einschätzungen auf Grund von prädiktiven Gentests sind eine moderne Form des Fluches – mit unerbittlich sicheren Folgen. Ausgehend vom Fall Alice Rivière …

»Es wird unerträglich werden!« – Medizinische Einschätzungen auf Grund von prädiktiven Gentests sind eine moderne Form des Fluches – mit unerbittlich sicheren Folgen. Ausgehend vom Fall Alice Rivière …

Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with …

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Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with …

Muchos investigadores hoy deben someterse a las directrices del mercado, regirse por sus lógicas competitivas, publicar para el reconocimiento de una ‘excelencia’… La filósofa y científica Isabelle S …

Ha llegado el momento de ralentizar el frenético ritmo de producción científica. En 2011, la Universidad Católica de Lovaina despidió brutalmente a la investigadora Barbara Van Dyck por haber partici …

Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers …

‘Somente descendo do pedestal a ciência poderá responder a tantas dúvidas sobre seu papel nestes tempos de mudanças sem precedentes’ – Tatiana Roque, autora do texto de orelha. Este livro conta com u …

Avec ce colloque, tenu alors qu”Ilya Prigogine (prix Nobel de Chimie) venait d”écrire avec Isabelle Stengers son célèbre ouvrage La Nouvelle Alliance, d”importantes contributions, notamment celles …

Poner a los científicos en contra de un «público dispuesto a creer lo que sea», al que hay que mantener a distancia, es un desastre político. ‘Los que saben’ se convierten en los pastores de un rebañ …

In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices …

Este libro es para quienes viven en suspenso, para quienes saben que habría que «hacer algo» pero están paralizados, para los que se sienten tentados de pensar que es demasiado tarde, o para los que …