
Meeting the Universe Halfway : Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
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- Paperback | 544 pages
- 152 x 229 x 33.02mm | 780.18g
- 11 Jul 2007
- Duke University Press
- North Carolina, United States
- English
- 1 table, 37 figures
- 082233917X
- 9780822339175
- 50,475
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Table of contents
Part I. Entangled Beginnings
Introduction: The Science and Ethics of Mattering 3
1. Meeting the Universe Halfway 39
2. Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements That Matter 71
Part II. Intra-Actions Matter
3. Niels Bohr's Philosophy-Physics: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Knowledge and Reality 97
4. Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter 132
Part III. Entanglements and Re(Con)figurations
5. Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality 189
6. Spacetime Re(con)figurings: Naturalcultural Forces and Changing Topologies of Power 223
7. Quantum Entanglements: Experimental Metaphysics and the Nature of Nature 247
8. The Ontology of Knowing, the Intra-activity of Becoming, and the Ethics of Mattering 353
Appendix A. Cascade Experiment, by Alice Fulton 397
Appendix B. The Uncertainty Principle is Not the Basis of Bohr's Complementarity 399
Appendix C. Controversy concerning the Relationship between Bohr's Principle of Complementarity and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 402
Notes 405
References 477
Index 493
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