grant funded research and publications
Foundations of Relational Realism: The Evolution of Set Theoretic External Relations to Category
Theoretic Internal Relations Toward an Event-Ontological, Topological Approach to Quatnum
Mechanics
PI : Michael Epperson, Director, CPNS-CSUS. Co-I's: Elias Zafiris, Theoretical and Mathematical
Physics, University of Athens; Karim Bschir, Research Fellow, Philosophy of Science, ETH Zurich; Timothy
Eastman, NASA-Goddard; Stuart Kauffman, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of
Pennsylvania.
This project reconstructs quantum theory’s conventional set theoretic, metrical formalism (grounded in
object elements), as a category theoretic, topological formalism (grounded in object relations).
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ONTOGENESIS PROCESS GROUP
Over the past decade conversations across humanities and sciences are sparking a provocative re-thinking of
process, evolution--the ever unfolding dynamic of complex bio-socio-cultural-geophysical systems.
Acknowledging that nature exceeds the scope of Turing-equivalent algorithms, beyond affirming Galileo’s
Eppur si muove! we ask, Come si muove? How?
Sha Xin Wei (ASU), Stuart Kauffman (Santa Fe), Giuseppe Longo (École Normale Supérieure), Michael Epperson
(CPNS - CSUS), Adam Nocek (ASU), Cary Wolfe (Rice), Phillip Thurtle (Univ. of Washington), Gaymon Bennett
(ASU), Erin Espelie (University of Colorado). Recent publication: Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical
Humanities 25.3, Special Issue, "Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity," June 2020.
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history and philosophy of science program
In collaboration with the Department of History, Sacramento State’s HPS Program is a joint initiative
bridging the College of Arts and Letters with the Consortium for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
(CPNS).
This partnership enables Sacramento State’s HPS Program to leverage CPNS’s international team of research
fellows, strong research and publication record (including articles in Nature, Foundations of
Physics, and other top journals, as well as numerous books from publishers including Oxford
University Press, Springer, etc.) and grant funding in history and philosophy of science (approximately $1
million since 2008) into strong courses, research internships, advising, and programmatic offerings for
Sacramento State students.
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