Stengers, Isabelle

Stengers, Isabelle. Ambiguous Affinity Newtonian Dream of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century. In A History of Scientific Thought, ed. M. Serres (Blackwell, 1995). 

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, and Stengers, Isabelle (1993). Histoire de la Chimie. Paris Editions la Decouverte. 

Stengers, Isabelle (1997) CosmopoHtiques, Paris, Editions Synthelabo, 7 Vols. 

Lavoisier. Isis. 87 (Sept. 1996) 481-499. Source for Lavoisier. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. A History of Chemistry. Cambridge MA Harvard University Press, 1996. Source for Leblanc as founder of industrial chemistry and for history of natural alkalis. 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. A History of Chemistry. Translated by Deborah van Dam. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1996. 

Isabelle Stengers and Judith Schlanger, Les concepts scientifiques Invention etpouvoir (Paris Editions La Decouverte, 1988) and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, A propos de methode de nomenclature chimique Esquisse historique suivie du texte de 1787 (Paris Centre de Documentation Sciences Humaines, 1983). 

Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos. London New Science Library, 1984. 

Isabelle Stengers first studied chemistry, then philosophy, which later became her main field of activity (she is presently professor of philosophy of science at ULB). She did her PhD thesis under the direction of Prigogine, on the problem of time. 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Universite de Paris X. She has authored a number of books about the history and philosophy of chemistry including A History of Chemistry (with Isabelle Stengers, 1996) and Lavoisier Memoires d une revolution (1993). In 1997, she received the Dexter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. 

Latour may have been introduced to Whitehead through Isabelle Stengers, cf. Latour(1996,1999) and Prigogine and Stengers (1984). 

The historians Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabel Stengers wrote the following beautiful words about the relationship of man and matter through chemistry ... 

It is at this point that we may return to one of our initial premises— that the corpuscular theory obtained by fusing alchemy and the type of Aristotelianism found in the Meteorology was genuinely experimental. In effect, Sennert considered his principles to be the limits attained by the analytical methods of the laboratory, a concept that modern scholars have found in the work of Robert Boyle. As Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers have pointed out, Boyle s closely related definition of an element as that into which bodies are ultimately resolved, was based on a negative-empirical concept ... that reflected the limits of technical analysis. Precisely this attitude underlay the tradition of scholastic alchemy appropriated by Sennert and developed further by... 

Using the philosophical stance adopted by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers in their History of Chemistry Barry argues that chemistry in pharmacy is a particularly interesting case of the general principle of a material information science creating informed materials. 

This way of thinking about the problem of realism corresponds to what Isabelle Stengers has termed the faith of the physicist . This credo, championed by Max Planck and Albert Einstein among others. 

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