Main entry:

Barad, Karen Michelle, author.

Title & Author:

Meeting the universe halfway : quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning / Karen Barad.

Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, [2007]
©2007

Description:

xiii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-489) and index.
pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Pt. 1. Entangled beginnings -- The science and ethics of mattering -- Meeting the universe halfway -- Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter -- Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality -- Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations -- Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality -- Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power -- Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature -- The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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Summary:

A work in feminist science studies presented as a component of understanding the science itself, in this case, quantum physics. This work elaborates the theory of agential realism, extending and revising Bohr's philosophical views in light of scholarship in physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science.
"Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realms, agential realism is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics. The starting point for Barad's analysis is the philosophical framework of quantum physicist Niels Bohr. Barad extends and partially revises Bohr's philosophical views in light of current scholarship in physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science as well as feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical social theories. In the process, she significantly reworks understandings of space, time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity."--Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

0822339013 (acid-free paper)
9780822339014 (acid-free paper)
082233917X (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780822339175 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Physics Philosophy.
Quantum theory Philosophy.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle Philosophy.
Realism Philosophy.
Relativity (Physics) Philosophy.
Matter Philosophy.
Physique Philosophie.
Théorie quantique Philosophie.
Principe d'incertitude d'Heisenberg Philosophie.
Réalisme Philosophie.
Relativité (Physique) Philosophie.
Matière Philosophie.
33.23 quantum physics.
Integrale Philosophie
Quantenphysik
Soziales System
Weltbild
Philosophie
Physik
Matter.
Quantum physics.
Epistemology.
Meaning.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296500
Call No.: BIB 242868
Status: Available