Dr. William Michael Kallfelz specializes in research in the foundations of physics, philosophy of science, and mathematical physics, with an additional area of competence in the philosophy of language.  He holds Master of Science degrees in physics and in applied mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia.) as well a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia.)  He has worked as a Ph.D. student in physics under David Finkelstein, presenting results of his research in Finkelstein’s Quantum Structures group in the 1999 Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society, as well as co-authored “Organism and Physics” with David Finkelstein, appearing in Process Studies (vol. 27, no. 3).  William has recently earned a Ph.D. in the Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPaS) program at the University of Maryland, working under Jeffrey Bub, in May, 2008.  His area of dissertation research involves the characterization of certain classes of physical theories using Clifford Algebra, and the ramifications for problems in the theory of scientific explanation and intertheoretic reduction in the philosophy of physics.  Recent publications and talks include “Physical Emergence and Process Ontology,” forthcoming in World Futures Journal (Spring, 2009) as well as “Getting Something Out of Nothing: Towards a Future Information Theory Based on Vacuum Microtopology,” presented at the International Congress of Nanotechnology in 2005. 

William is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, and a consultant for its project, “Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics” funded by Fetzer-Franklin, and was also part of the same group which recently received a Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series Planning Grant, from the John Templeton Foundation.  In addition to his research, William is an active educator in the fields of physics, mathematics, and philosophy.  While serving as an Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Physics at Piedmont College, (Demorest, Ga.) he co-taught and co-designed an interdisciplinary course in Science and Religion, which received a Templeton Grant, in the Spring of 2002.  William is currently a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Capitol College, (Laurel, Maryland).  For every summer since 2004 (to the present) William also works as an Instructor (teaching courses in Discrete Mathematics and Fast-Paced Physics) for the Johns Hopkins University Summer Program for the Center for Talented Youth.