Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences - California State University Sacramento

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."
~ Alfred North Whitehead

New Book by CPNS Research Fellow
Henry Stapp

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist and CPNS Fellow Henry Stapp has spent his entire career in the frontier areas of theoretical physics, working personally with Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and John Wheeler on the mathematical foundations of quantum theory. Stapp's deep interest in the quantum

measurement problem led him to pursue extensive work pertaining to a quantum mechanical description of physical processes occurring in our brains.


		Spacetime: From the Greeks to Gravity Probe B What did the ancient Hellenic philosophers think about matter and its relationship to space and time? How were these views inherited and modified in the work of Newton, and later in the work of Einstein? Gravity Probe B (GP-B) is a NASA physics mission that is currently investigating
Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity--his theory of gravity. It is hoped that the results will yield new understandings of the long evolution of thought about the nature of the physical world.

Michael Epperson - Director & Principal Investigator

The Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences at California State University Sacramento engages in research and scholarship that explores the philosophical implications underlying recent innovations in contemporary science, including those occurring in the areas of quantum physics, cosmology, and the study of complex adaptive systems. This exploration is, in part, a speculative metaphysical enterprise intended to contribute to the framework of a suitable bridge by which scientific and philosophical concepts might not only be cross-joined, but mutually supported.

Mission Statement

Research Fellows

Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics: New Implications for the Scientific Understanding of Mind, Will, and the Natural Order

Principal Investigator: Michael Epperson, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Sacramento. Co-Investigators: Henry P. Stapp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; David Finkelstein, Professor, Department of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Timothy Eastman, Plasmas International.

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May 30 - June 1, 2008 - Doha, Qatar
Lecture by Henry P. Stapp: "Science, Culture, and the Future of Humanity: Could Knowledge, Spirituality, and Action Re-Shape the World?"
(Click here to read the abstract)

August 14-17, 2008 - CSU Sacramento
Workshop: Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics (Click here for a research summary.)

September 6, 2008 - Univ. of West England
Lecture by Michael Epperson: "Quantum Praxiology and Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism"

Spring 2009 - CSU Sacramento
International Conference: "Quantum Mechanics & Neuroscience: Implications for the Understanding of Consciousness and Free Will"
(sponsored by the Fetzer-Franklin Fund)

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