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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.

Also issued online.

Online version: Barad, Karen Michelle. Meeting the universe halfway. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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.

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.

Matter > Philosophy.

Physics > Philosophy.

Quantum theory > Philosophy.

Relativity (Physics) > Philosophy.