Introduction. The Science and Ethics of Mattering

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Part I. Entangled Beginnings
5. Introduction. The Science and Ethics of Mattering 1
6. One. Meeting the Universe Halfway 39
7. Two. Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements That Matter 71
8. Part II. Intra-Actions Matter
9. Three. Niels Bohr’s Philosophy-Physics: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Knowledge and Reality 97
10. Four. Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter 132
11. Part III. Entanglements And Re(con)figurations
12. Five. Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality 189
13. Six. Spacetime Re(con)figurings: Naturalcultural Forces and Changing Topologies of Power 223
14. Seven. Quantum Entanglements: Experimental Metaphysics and the Nature of Nature 247
15. Eight. The Ontology of Knowing, the Intra-activity of Becoming, and the Ethics of Mattering 353
16. Appendix A Cascade Experiment 397
17. Appendix B The Uncertainty Principle Is Not the Basis of Bohr’s Complementarity 399
18. Appendix C Controversy concerning the Relationship between Bohr’s Principle of Complementarity and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle 402
19. Notes 405
20. References 477
21. Index 493