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Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Proceedings of the biennial meeting of the philosophy of science association 21988, 4144. Karen barad karen barad is professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at the university of california, santa cruz. This aspect of barad s thought puts her at odds with the more traditional concept of realism found among the speculative realists. Synthese library studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science, vol 256.
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