Isabelle Stengers - Cosmopolitics: Learning To Think With Sciences, Peoples And Natures

March 5, 2012
Professor Isabelle Stengers, Université libre de bruxelles
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia

This event is the keynote presentation of "TO SEE WHERE IT TAKES US", a series of conversations with philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers March 5-9, 2012.

Professor Stengers' keynote address examines sciences and the consequences of what has been called progress. Is it possible to reclaim modern practices, to have them actively taking into account what they felt entitled to ignore in the name of progress? Or else, can they learn to "think with" instead of define and judge?

Trained as a chemist, Professor Stengers received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française and has collaborated and published with, among others, Nobel Prize winning chemist Ilya Prigogine and renowned sociologist of science Bruno Latour. Her books include: Order out of Chaos (with I. Prigogine), A History of Chemistry (with B. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent), Power and Invention, The Invention of Modern Science, Cosmopolitics I & II, Capitalist Sorcery (with Philipple Pignarre), and Thinking with Whitehead.

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