Jan Linhart is an anthropologist and a senior researcher at the Center for Life Ethics at the University of Bonn. Over the past 25 years, he has collaborated with marginalised ethnic groups and intercultural indigenous universities in Latin America. His work has focused on the intertwined relations between modern/colonial legacies of epistemic violence, structural inequality and the exploitation of human and more-than-human nature. These collaborations are based on long-standing partnerships and joint transdisciplinary action research together with indigenous academics, local communities and intercultural universities, including the Universidad Autónoma Intercultural Indígena (UAIIN/CRIC, Colombia) and Amawtay Wasi (Ecuador). His current work at the Center for Life Ethics focusses on the establishment of Pluriversal Dialogues as an integral part of scientific practice and the development of Life Ethics as an ontologically open ethical framework for cosmopolitical negotiations of desirable futures.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I: Scientific Universalism.- 2. What is Scientific Universalism?.- 3. The Metaphysics of Universalism.- 4. The Geopolitics of Scientific Universalism.- 5. The Scientific Construction of the Other.- Part II: The Potiguara.- 6. On Method.- 7. Research in Action.- 8. Changing Potiguara Worlds.- 9. Contemporary Potiguara Ritual and Cosmovision.- 10. Potiguara Ontology.- Part III: The Hard Problem of Modern Science.- 11. The Hard Problem of Consciousness.- 12. What Quantum Physics may Tell Us about Mind and Matter.- 13. A Potiguara Perspective on Quantum Physics?.- 14. Conclusion and Outlook.