Stengers, Making Sense in Common

A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy

Stengers recovers the idea of “common sense” as a meeting place—a commons—where opposed ideas of science and humanistic inquiry can engage one another and help to move society forward. Her reconciliation of science and philosophy is especially urgent today—when climate disaster looms all around us, when the values of what we thought of as civilization and modernity are discredited, and when expertise of any kind is under attack.

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