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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

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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"

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:

“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)

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

FORTHCOMING IN 2013:

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

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

RESEARCH:

(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, Plasmas International & NASA-Goddard; Dr. Philip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia; 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, Plasmas International & 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, Professor, Department of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Henry P. Stapp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dr. Timothy Eastman, Plasmas International & NASA-Goddard; Dr. Mohsen Shiri-Garakani, Dept. of Physics, Pace University; William Kallfelz, Ph.D. candidate, Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences, Foundations of Physics Group, University of Maryland. Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.