Isabelle Stengers

Isabelle Stengers ( born 1949 ) is a Belgian philosopher.

Life and work

Stengers studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles chemistry. Together with Ilya Prigogine, she wrote the book dialogue with nature, where the attempt is made to draw philosophical conclusions from the non-equilibrium thermodynamics. It is now regarded as an expert in the field of philosophy of science and works as an Associate Professor at the Université Libre of Brussels. She has also worked on Alfred North Whitehead.

In 1993 she was awarded by the Académie Française the big prize for philosophy.

Her father is the historian Jean Stengers.

Book Bibliography (selection)

• Dialogue with Nature (1979, with Ilya Prigogine )
• Le coeur et la raison. L' hypnose en question de Lavoisier à Lacan (1989, with Léon Chertok )
• Beginnings. The dynamics - from Leibniz to Lucretius. Isabelle Stengers, inter alia, Berlin: Merve Verlag. 1991 ISBN. 978-3-88396-080-7.
• The Paradox of Time ( 1993), with I. Prigogine
• The invention of modern science (1997)
• Who is science? (1998)
• Speculative constructivism. Berlin: Merve Verlag. , 2008. ISBN 978-3-88396-246-7.
• Thinking with Whitehead: a free and wild creation of concepts. Harvard University Press. 2011th (French original: Penser avec Whitehead, 2002).