Ruth Porter Groff, “Conceptualizing Causal Powers: Activity, Capacity, Essence, Necessitation,” Synthese 199, no. 3 (December 2021): 9881–96.
Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2009). Note that while Bennett defends a view of “thing-power,” in important ways her approach is more complex than the simplistic thing-view described here. See also keyword 9.
Stephan Guttinger, “Process and Practice: Understanding the Nature of Molecules,” HYLE: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 27, no. 1 (2021): 47–66.
Phillip Ball, “Beyond the Bond,” Nature 469, no. 7328 (January 5, 2011): 26–28.
Evelyn Fox Keller, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology (Columbia University Press, 1996).
Kathleen McAfee, “Neoliberalism on the Molecular Scale: Economic and Genetic Reductionism in Biotechnology Battles,” Geoforum 34, no. 2 (May 2003): 203–19.
We see similar narratives of precision and universality emerge in current discussions about genome editing and “molecular scissors,” such as CRISPR-Cas9. See Eben Kirksey, The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (Bristol University Press, 2021).
David Baltimore, “Viral RNA-Dependent DNA Polymerase: RNA-Dependent DNA Polymerase in Virions of RNA Tumour Viruses,” Nature 226, no. 5252 (1970): 1209–1211; H. M. Temi and S. Mizutami, “RNA-Dependent DNA Polymerase in Virions of Rous Sarcoma Virus,” Nature 226 (1970): 1211–13.
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C. Gilbert et al., “Endogenous Hepadnaviruses, Bornaviruses and Circoviruses in Snakes,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1791 (2014); M. Horie et al., “Comprehensive Analysis of Endogenous Bornavirus-Like Elements in Eukaryote Genomes,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368, no. 1626 (2013).
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On the issue of reification in science see also J. Dupré and S. Leonelli, “Process Epistemology in the COVID-19 Era: Rethinking the Research Process to Avoid Dangerous Forms of Reification,” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12, no. 1 (2022): 1–22.
R. L. Stein, “Towards a Process Philosophy of Chemistry,” Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 10, no. 4 (2004): 5–22.
Nicholas Rescher, Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy (SUNY Press, 1996), 28.
Rescher, Process Metaphysics, 97.
J. Nicholson and John Dupré, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (Oxford University Press, 2018), 416.
Daniel J. Nicholson, “Reconceptualizing the Organism: From Complex Machine to Flowing Stream,” in Everything Flows, ed. D. J. Nicholson and J. Dupré (Oxford University Press 2018): 139–66.
John Dupré, Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (Oxford University Press, 2012).
John Dupré and Stephan Guttinger, “Viruses as Living Processes,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, no. 59 (2016): 109–16.
Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 3.
See S. Abrahamsson et al., “Living with Omega-3: New Materialism and Enduring Concerns,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 1 (2015): 4–19.
Jane Bennett, “The Force of Things: Steps Toward an Ecology of Matter,” Political Theory 32, no. 3 (2004): 347–72.
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway (Duke University Press, 2007).
Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway, 139.
Guttinger, “Process and Practice.”
M. C. Bellissent-Funel et al., “Water Determines the Structure and Dynamics of Proteins,” Chemical Reviews 116, no. 13 (2016): 7673–97.
The same goes for organisms, which are often described as streams of energy and matter. See Nicholson, “Reconceptualizing the Organism,” 159.
R. J. Deltete, “Wilhelm Ostwald’s energetics 2: energetic theory and applications, part I,” Foundations of Chemistry 9, no. 3 (2007): 265–316.