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42.1 Reconstruction of Bohr’s Philosophy-Physics 42.1 Reconstruction of Bohr’s Philosophy-Physics
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42.1.1 Bohr’s Epistemological Framework: Measurement Matters 42.1.1 Bohr’s Epistemological Framework: Measurement Matters
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42.1.2 Indeterminacy, not Uncertainty 42.1.2 Indeterminacy, not Uncertainty
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42.1.3 Bohrian Phenomenon 42.1.3 Bohrian Phenomenon
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42.1.4 Bohr’s Account of Objectivity 42.1.4 Bohr’s Account of Objectivity
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42.1.5 A Bohrian Ontology: Phenomena and Intra-Actions 42.1.5 A Bohrian Ontology: Phenomena and Intra-Actions
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42.1.6 Limitations of Bohr’s Epistemological Account 42.1.6 Limitations of Bohr’s Epistemological Account
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42.2 Agential Realism 42.2 Agential Realism
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42.2.1 Agential Realism: Understanding Phenomena Ontologically, or A Posthumanist Relational Ontology Approach to Quantum Physics 42.2.1 Agential Realism: Understanding Phenomena Ontologically, or A Posthumanist Relational Ontology Approach to Quantum Physics
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42.3 An Agential Realist Interpretation of Quantum Physics 42.3 An Agential Realist Interpretation of Quantum Physics
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42.3.1 Empirical Evidence: The Quantum Eraser Experiment and Experimental Meta/physics 42.3.1 Empirical Evidence: The Quantum Eraser Experiment and Experimental Meta/physics
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42.3.2 On the Problem of Measurement 42.3.2 On the Problem of Measurement
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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42 Agential Realism—A Relation Ontology Interpretation of Quantum Physics
Get accessProfessor, University of California at Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies Department
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Published:19 May 2022
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Abstract
A relational ontology interpretation of quantum physics, based on a reconstruction and further elaboration of Niels Bohr’s philosophy-physics, offers an account of quantum physics that makes claims about the larger physical world, not merely the outcome of laboratory experiments. While Newtonian physics supports an ontology consisting of individual entities that precede their interactions (relata precede relations), quantum physics resists such a metaphysics of individualism, and instead supports the understanding that reality is made of relations: that relata come into being only through and as constitutive parts of their intra-actions (that is, relata only exist within relations). On this agential realist account, the nature of nature is an ongoing dynamism of intra-activity through which the world is differentially articulated, and some of those articulations are what we call measurements.
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