The Challenge of Complexity: Unfolding the Ethics of Science.: In Memoriam Ilya Prigogine

The attendees at the Complexity and Philosophy gathering in Havana this past January were honored to hear a keynote from Isabelle Stengers the noted philosopher of science who teaches at the Free University of Brussels. While Stengers is perhaps best known for her decades long partnership with Ilya Prigogine, what struck most of the delegates to the conference was the creative strength of Stengers’s own positions. This should have been no surprise to those who read French: for Stengers’s work is vast and well read in France. But for those of us who are limited to English, the breadth and suggestiveness of Stengers’s thoughts were new and provocative.