Foundations of Relational Realism: Logical Causality, Intrinsic Decoherence, and a Category-Theoretic Mereotopological Model of Quantum Spacetime (2010-2013) Principal Investigator: Michael Epperson, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Sacramento. Co-Investigators: Elias Zafiris, Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, University of Athens; Philip Stamp, Professor, Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Stuart Kauffman, Research Professor, Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont.
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March 7, 2013 - CPNS & Department of History Lecture: “Between Teleology and Mechanism: The History of the Concept of Organism from a Philosophical Perspective” Spyridon Koutroufinis, Technical University of Berlin Visiting Professor Department of Anthropology U.C. Berkeley February 1-3, 2013 - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Michael Epperson, "Quantum Theory and Metaphysics” in the Fourth Metalithikum Klausur Symposium December 12, 2012 - Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Brussels Michael Epperson & Elias Zafiris: "Foundations of Relational Realism: On Relational Realism and the use of Grothendieck topology to construct a category-sheaf theoretic interpretation of quantum mechanics” October 23, 2012 - CPNS Lecture: "Potentiality in Natural Philosophy” Karim Bschir, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich February 17, 2011: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Lecture by Michael Epperson: "Interpretations of Contemporary Physics"