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Professor Isabelle Stengers, born in 1949, is a Belgian philosopher and is the daughter of the historian Jean Stengers.

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Biography

Professor Stengers is arguably one of the most penetrating and celebrated thinkers writing about the philosophy of science today. Stengers holds her Associate Professorship in the Philosophy of Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993. Stengers has written extensively on Anglo-American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, other work has included Continental philosophers such as Michel Serres and Gilbert Simondon. Stengers is an accomplished philosopher in her own right; however, noteworthy collaborators include Leon Chertok and Bruno Latour.

Partial Bibliography

  • Stengers I (2000) The Invention of Modern Science, Smith D.W (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
  • Stengers I (1997) Power and Invention: Situating Science, Bains P (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
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