Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences www.c-p-n-s.org Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences

COURSES FOR FALL 2012:


Philosophy 125: Philosophy of Science


Philosophy 2: Philosophical Ethics

OTHER COURSES:

Philosophy 25: Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy 27: Early Modern Philosophy
Philosophy 131: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy 101: Ethics & Social Issues
Philosophy 6: Introduction to Philosophy


RECENT & UPCOMING LECTURES & SYMPOSIA:

February 1-3, 2013 - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich: "Quantum Theory and Metaphysics": Fourth Annual Metalithikum Klausur Symposium

December 12, 2012 - Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) Brussels, Belgium: Lecture with 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"

December 6, 2012 - California State University, Chico: "The Mutual Implication of Objects and Relations in Quantum Mechanics: How Potentiality and Contextuality are Ontologically Significant in Modern Physics"

October 27-28, 2012 - Claremont Graduate University: "Relational Realism and Issues in Modern Physics"

October 24, 2012 - Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris: “Understanding Quantum Mechanics: The Rehabilitation of Aristotle in Modern Physics.”Co-sponsored by the Department of History

February 17, 2011: Library of Congress: "Logical Causality in Whitehead's Philosophy of Nature" - Washington, D.C.

For a complete list of past events, click here.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

K. Bschir, M. Epperson, E. Zafiris, “Decoherence: A View from Topology,” European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (in review)

“The Mechanics of Concrescence: Quantum Theory and Process Metaphysics,” Studia Whiteheadiana (Polish translation), Vol 4 (2010): 159-190)

“Quantum Mechanics and Relational Realism: Logical Causality and Wavefunction Collapse,” Process Studies, 38:2 (2009) (PDF)

"Relational Realism: The Evolution of Ontology to Praxiology in the Philosophy of Nature," World Futures, 65:19-41, Routledge (2009) (PDF)

“Whitehead and Modern Physics” in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. Nicholas Rescher, Johanna Seibt, Michel Weber, eds. Ontos-Verlag (2008) (MORE)


CURRICULUM VITAE: Download PDF

Michael Epperson, Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead


Foundations of Relational Realism: A Topological Approach to Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Nature
(co-authored with Elias Zafiris). Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, New York (July, 2013).



Quantum Mechanics and the
Philosophy of Alfred North
Whitehead
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2nd ed. Oxford University Press & Fordham University Press, 2012. (1st ed. Hardcover, Fordham University Press, 2004)


Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris, Foundations of Relational Realism

FORTHCOMING IN 2013:

Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality, Actuality, and Process. (ed. with David Ray Griffin and Timothy Eastman). Ontos-Verlag, Frankfurt.


RESEARCH:

(2013-2014) Experimental Application of the Relational Realist Formalism: A Topological, Sheaf-Theoretic Explication of Quantum Geometric Phases By Analysis of Experimental Data on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect, the Pancharatnam Phase, and the Quantum Hall Effect, Toward a Unified Interpretation

Co-Investigators: Dr. Elias Zafiris, Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, University of Athens;Dr. Karim Bschir, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Supported by a grant from the Fetzer-Franklin Fund (Grant D34C101)

(2010-2013) Foundations of Relational Realism: Logical Causality, Intrinsic Decoherence, and a Category-Theoretic Mereotopological Model of Quantum Spacetime

Co-Investigators: Dr. Elias Zafiris, Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, University of Athens; Dr. Stuart Kauffman, Research Professor, Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont; Dr. Timothy Eastman, NASA-Goddard; Dr. Karim Bschir, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Supported by a grant from the Fetzer-Franklin Fund (Grant D21C62)

(2008-2009) Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics: Relational Realism and the Evolution of Ontology to Praxiology in the Philosophy of Nature - NEWS RELEASE

Co-Investigators: Dr. David Finkelstein, Professor, Department of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Henry P. Stapp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dr. Timothy Eastman, NASA-Goddard. Supported by a grant from the Fetzer-Franklin Fund (Grant D11C36)

(2007-2008) Quantum Mechanical Investigations into the
Causal and Logical Orders and the Physical
Basis of Possibility

Co-Investigators: Dr. David Finkelstein, Department of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Henry P. Stapp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dr. Timothy Eastman, NASA-Goddard. Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.


OTHER WORK:

Documentary film The 11th Day at
the British Embassy - Special Event www.The11thDay.com
view trailer (for more information on my documentary films, see below. NEWS RELEASE)
The MNIMI Foundation for Modern Hellenic History and Culture Michael Epperson Michael Epperson, Director, Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University Sacramento