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History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) Program
Sacramento State's HPS Program includes new course offerings in the Department of History, visiting scholars, graduate student liaisons at Stanford and San Francisco State, the Ultimate Questions Student Discussion Group, and more. |
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Graduate Courses at U.C. Berkeley - Graduate Theological Union
Starting spring 2015, the CPNS Program for Science and Human Values, in collaboration with U.C. Berkeley-GTU, will be offering occasional graduate courses that explore the history of religion and modern science. The first of these courses, 'Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: A Dialogue with the Western Scholastic Tradition' will be taught by Michael Epperson. |
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July 10,
2021
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Cobb Institute, Claremont Graduate University - Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris - Symposium panelists: "Untying the Gordian Knot - Process, Reality, and Context" |
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September 26-28, 2019 |
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Stony Brook University - 2nd Annual Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Conference
Keynote Talk, Michael Epperson: “Subject, Object, and Ontological Process in Quantum Mechanics”
Conference Brochure and Full Speaker Schedule |
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August 21-22, 2019 |
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Santa Fe Institute - Thirty Years of Complex Thinking: A Celebration of Stuart Kauffman’s Contributions to the Field of Complex Systems
Invited Talk, Michael Epperson: "Dipolar Duality: Actuality and Potentiality in Quantum Mechanics" |
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June 17-20, 2018 |
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U.C. Berkeley -
Eighteenth Annual Biosemiotics Gathering - UC Berkeley
Presentation,, Michael Epperson: "Quantum Origins of Ontic Emergence" |
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February 8-12, 2018 |
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Ontogenetics Process Group – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Workshop: Stuart Kauffman, Complexity Theory; Sha Xin Wei, Arts, Media & Engineering, ASU; Philip Thurtle, Comp. History of Ideas, Univ. of Washington; Michael Epperson, History and Philosophy of Science, CSUS-CPNS; Cary Wolfe, Cultural Theory, Rice University; Adam Nocek, Arts, Media & Engineering, ASU; Erin Espelie, Film Studies & Critical Media Practices, University of Colorado Boulder, Editor-in Chief, Natural History magazine. |
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November 13-15, 2017 |
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Arizona State University -
Beyond Complexity: The Biosocial After the Digital
Presentation, Michael Epperson: “Contextual Measurement in Quantum Mechanics: Inducing the Objective Global from the Subjective Local.”
The Beyond Complexity seminar addresses the growing consensus in the sciences and the humanities that the complexity of living matter cannot be adequately captured by information theoretic explanations. To engage this complexity, this seminar brings together a vibrant and diverse group of scientists and scholars from across North America and Europe to participate in a series of workshops and public events hosted by Arizona State University. |
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April 19-23, 2017 |
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Ontogenetics Process Group - Inaugural Workshop - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stuart Kauffman; Sha Xin Wei, Arts, Media & Engineering, ASU; Michael Epperson, History and Philosophy of Science, CSUS-CPNS; Cary Wolfe, Cultural Theory, Rice University; Philip Thurtle, Comp. History of Ideas, Univ. of Washington; Adam Nocek, Arts, Media & Engineering, ASU |
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January 13-16, 2016 |
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Workshop: "Quantum Mechanics + Category Theory After Deleuze and Badiou"
Sha Xin Wei - Director, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, Synthesis Center, Arizona State University
Michael Epperson - Director, Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, Cal State University, Sacramento
Arizona State University - School of Arts, Media, and Engineering - Synthesis Center |
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June 4-7, 2015 |
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Pomona College - 10th International Whitehead Conference: Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization
5 Presentations: Michael Epperson - [1] Section IV, Track 2 “The Ontology of Contextualized Potentiality: Whiteheadian Internal Relations in Quantum Mechanics”; [2] Section IV, Track 7: "The Behavioral, Neural, and Quantum Correlates of Conscious Experience: A Whiteheadian Look at Tononi and Koch’s Integrated Information Theory"; [3] Section II, Track 1: “A Mereotopological Bridging of Prehension and Extension in Whiteheadian Cosmology”; [4] Section IX, Track 4: “The Whiteheadian Path from Quantum Physics to Psychology”
Elias Zafiris: Section IV, Track 2 “Sheaves of Boolean Internal Relational Frames: A Local-to-Global, Whiteheadian Approach to Quantum Geometry”
Pomona College
Claremont, California |
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November 25-26, 2014 |
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Lecture: Elias Zafiris - “Natural Computation as Cryptography: A Spectrum View on Number Theory” - Seminar, "Considering the Computability of the Sun’s Inverse: Speculative Reasoning and the Nature of the Cosmos"
ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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November 19, 2014 |
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Lecture: CSUS History and Philosophy of Science Program
Visiting Scholar - Dr. Robert Geyer, University of Lancaster: "Using Complexity to Help Understand and Manage Public Policy" (POSTER) (POWERPOINT)
Co-sponsored by the CSUS Department of Public Policy and Administration
California State University, Sacramento
5:30 - 7:30 pm Petris Room, University Library (3rd Floor, Room 3023)
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November 5, 2014 |
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Public Lecture: CSUS History and Philosophy of Science Program
Visiting Scholar - Dr. Timothy Eastman, NASA Goddard
"Cosmic Agnosticism: Current Problems and Alternative Perspectives in Cosmology"
California State University, Sacramento
7:00 - 8:30 pm, Petris Room, University Library (3rd Floor, Room 3023)
This talk is intended for a general audience and is open to the public.
* FREE PARKING ON TOP FLOOR OF PARKING StrUCTURE II * (MAP)
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November 6, 2014 |
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Presentation: CSUS History and Philosophy of Science Program
Visiting Scholar -
Dr. Timothy Eastman, NASA Goddard
"The Plasma Universe: Gravity Plus Electromagnetism"
Department of Physics Colloquium
California State University, Sacramento
4:00 - 5:20, Mendocino Hall 1015 |
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May 22-24, 2014 |
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Presentation: Michael Epperson, “The Ontology and Epistemology of Internal Relations: Bridging the Physical and Conceptual in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information”
Presentation: Elias Zafiris, “Sheaves of Boolean Logical Frames: A Local-To-Global Approach To Quantum Geometry And Logic”
Fifth Metalithicum Klausur Symposium: "Computation as Literacy: Self Organizing Maps"
(Edited volume published 2016, Birkhäuser)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland |
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April 5-6, 2014 |
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Presentation: Michael Epperson, “Potentiality and Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics"
"Quantity/Quality: The Problem of Measure in Philosophy and Science"
U.C. Davis
Davis, California |
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October 24, 2013 |
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Lecture by Elias Zafiris: “A Category Theoretical Approach to Quantum Physics”
Parmenides Foundation - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany |
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October 9, 2013 |
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Lecture: Michael Epperson, “Potentiality and Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics: The Relational Realist Approach”
Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest, Hungary
5:00 PM, Room 226 |
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October 8, 2013 |
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Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris: “Relational Realist Philosophy and the Topological Approach to Quantum Mechanics”
Parmenides Foundation - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany |
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October 3-6, 2013 |
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Conference: “Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2013”
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna, Austria |
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August 24-26, 2013 |
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Workshop: “The Philosophy of Relational Realism and Quantum Geometric Phases”
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Elias Zafiris - Theoretical physics and mathematics, CPNS and Institute of Mathematics, University of Athens
Michael Epperson - Philosophy of Science, CPNS, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Sacramento
Karim Bschir - Philosophy of Science - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
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August 21-23, 2013 |
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Symposium: "Relational Realism, Quantum Gravity, and the Holographic Principle"
Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Amsterdam
Sebastian de Haro - Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam
Dennis Dieks - Philosophy of Science - Utrecht University
Jeroen van Dongen - Institute for History and Foundations of Science - Utrecht University
Elias Zafiris - Theoretical physics and mathematics, CPNS and Institute of Mathematics, University of Athens
Michael Epperson - Philosophy of Science, CPNS, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Sacramento
Karim Bschir - Philosophy of Science - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
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April 3, 2013 |
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Lecture: “The Role of Topology in the Interpretation of Quantum Event Structures”
Elias Zafiris
Institute of Mathematics, University of Athens
Visiting Professor
Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös University, Budapest
5:00 PM, Room 226 |
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March 7, 2013 |
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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
California State University, Sacramento
1:30 - 2:45, Summit Room, University Union, 3rd Floor
Co-sponsored by the Department of History |
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February 4-7, 2013 |
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Workshop: “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”
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland |
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February 1-3, 2013 |
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Presentation: Michael Epperson: “Quantum Theory and Metaphysics”
Fourth Metalithicum Klausur Symposium
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland |
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December 12, 2012 |
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Duo Lecture, Michael Epperson and 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”
Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels)
Brussels, Belgium |
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December 6, 2012 |
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Lecture: Michael Epperson: “The Mutual Implication of Objects and Relations in Quantum Mechanics: How Potentiality and Contextuality are Ontologically Significant in Modern Physics”
California State University, Chico
Department of Philosophy |
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October 27-28, 2012 |
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Workshop Presentation: Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris: “Relational Realism and Issues in Modern Physics”
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, California
John Cobb - Claremont Graduate University
Robert Valenza - Dept. of Mathematics, Claremont McKenna College
Granville Henry - Emeritus - Dept. of Mathematics, Claremont McKenna College
Ronny Desmet - Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
Tim Eastman - NASA-Goddard
Elias Zafiris - University of Athens
Michael Epperson - CPNS, California State University Sacramento |
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October 25, 2012 |
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Seminar: Elias Zafiris, University of Athens, Institute of Mathematics: “A Sheaf Theoretic Framework for the Representation of Quantum Event Structures in Terms of Boolean Covering Systems”
CPNS and the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy
California State University, Sacramento
3:00-3:50, Brighton Hall, Rm. 204 |
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October 24, 2012 |
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Lecture: Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris: “Understanding Quantum Mechanics: The Rehabilitation of Aristotle in Modern Physics”
Co-sponsored by the Hellenic Studies Program and
The Hellenic American Professional Society
California State University, Sacramento
7:00-8:00 pm, Petris Room, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, University Library 3023 (3rd floor) |
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October 23, 2012 |
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Lecture: Karim Bschir, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology: “Potentiality in Natural Philosophy”
Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
California State University, Sacramento
1:30-2:45, University Union, Folsom Room (3rd Floor) |
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October 18-21, 2012 |
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Panelists: Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris - Symposium: “The Decline Effect: Evidence, Explanations, and Future Directions”
University of California Santa Barbara |
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December 2, 2011 |
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Presentation, Michael Epperson: “Relational Realism, Quantum Mechanics, and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead” – Conference: “Whitehead: The Next Generation”
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, California |
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November 2, 2011 |
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Presentation, Michael Epperson: “Quantum Mechanics, Category Theory, and the Philosophy of Whitehead" - Symposium: "Conversations About Whitehead and Category Theory”
Claremont Graduate University
Center for Process Studies
Claremont, California |
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October 5-8, 2011 |
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Presentation: "Quantum Decoherence: A View from Topology"
European Philosophy of Science Association 2011 Conference
Athens, Greece
Karim Bschir - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Elias Zafiris - University of Athens
Michael Epperson - CPNS, California State University Sacramento |
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June 15-20, 2011 |
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Workshop: "Quantum Relational Realism: Mereotopology, Logical Implication, and Internal Relation in Quantum Mechanics as Represented via Sheaf-theoretic Boolean Covering Systems"
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (co-sponsor)
Zurich, Switzerland
Bernex, France
Michael Epperson - CPNS, California State University Sacramento
Roland Omnès - University of Paris XI
Elias Zafiris - University of Athens
Karim Bschir - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Timothy E. Eastman - NASA Goddard & Plasmas International
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February 17, 2011 |
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Symposium: "The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead"
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Experts to Discuss Famed Mathematician and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and a Rare Piece of Correspondence at Symposium on Feb. 17
A rare, six-page letter written by Alfred North Whitehead, one of the major philosophers and mathematicians of the 20th century, will be the subject of a half-day symposium at the Library of Congress. The letter was recently donated to the Library and will be housed in the Manuscript Division.
Roland Faber, executive co-director of the Center for Process Studies and executive director of the Whitehead Research Project at Claremont Graduate University will give the keynote address "Whitehead’s Work and Impact, Past and Future," which will provide an overview of Whitehead and his legacy in a range of fields.
George Lucas of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis will discuss "Whitehead, Wittgenstein and 20th Century Philosophy and Ethics."
Michael Epperson of California State University in Sacramento will present "Interpretations of Contemporary Physics."
David Finkelstein of the Georgia Institute of Technology will discuss "Reflections on ‘Principia Mathematica,’" which will address the impact of Whitehead in logic and mathematics.
Derek Malone-France of George Washington University will present "Kant and Whitehead."
Ron Phipps of the International Center for Process Philosophy, Science and Education will discuss "Significance of Whitehead’s 1936 Letter."
Timothy Eastman of Plasmas International in Silver Spring, Md., will present "Whitehead in the Tradition of Process Thought."
Henry S. Leonard, Jr., the letter’s donor, will talk about its provenance.
Click here for more information from the Library of Congress website. |
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October 19-23, 2010 |
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Workshop: "Applying Sheaf/Category Theory to Quantum Mechanics: Logical Implication And The Internal Relation Of The Local To The Global In Quantum Mechanical Predication"
University of Athens - Institute of Mathematics
Athens, Greece |
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July 19-20, 2010 |
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Workshop: "Foundations of Relational Realism: Logical Causality, Intrinsic Decoherence, and a Category-Theoretic Mereotopological Model of Quantum Spacetime"
Orcas Island, Washington
Michael Epperson: Dept. of Philosophy & College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Director, CPNS, California State University
Stuart Kauffman: Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont
Elias Zafiris: Dept. of Mathematics, University of Athens
Philip Stamp: Dept. of Physics, University of British Columbia / PITI
Karim Bschir: Dept. of Philosophy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Timothy Eastman: Plasmas International
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July 4-7, 2010 |
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"International Symposium on Generalizing Quantum Theory"
Europa University Viadrina
Frankfurt-Oder, Germany |
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February 23, 2010 |
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STEM Lecture Series
Center for STEM Excellence (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Lecture by Michael Epperson
"From Classical Philosophy to Quantum Mechanics: An Evolving Reality"
California State University, Sacramento
University Union, Redwood Room: 6 pm |
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February 2, 2010 |
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Workshop: "Relational Realism and Generalized Quantum Theory"
University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany |
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January 29-30, 2010 |
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Workshop: "Quantum Logical Causality, Category Theory, and the Philosophy of Whitehead"
Elias Zafiris, Michael Epperson, Karim Bschir
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland |
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June 26-28, 2009 |
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Workshop: "Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics - II"
Michael Epperson, Paul Gochet, Ronny Desmet, Michel Weber, Tim Eastman
Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium |
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June 13-20, 2009 |
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Lecture & Panel - Michael Epperson: "The Relational Realist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Evolution of Ontology to Praxiology in the Philosophy of Nature"
University of Rome
International Conference on Science and Spirituality
Cortona, Italy
Panel:
Arthur Zajonc - Professor of Physics, Amherst College
Michel Bitbol - Director of Research, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Michael Epperson - Director, Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, California State University, Sacramento
Eshel Ben-Jacob - Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University |
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August 14-17, 2008 |
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Workshop: "Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics - I"
Michael Epperson, David Finkelstein, Henry Stapp, George Shields, Tim Eastman, William Kallfelz, Gary Herstein
California State University Sacramento
Sacramento, California |
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August 15-18, 2007 |
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Workshop: "Quantum Physical Investigations into the Causal and Logical Orders and the Physical Basis of Possibility"
Michael Epperson, Dept. of Philosophy, Director CPNS, California State University Sacramento
Timothy E. Eastman, NASA-Goddard
David Ritz Finkelstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Henry P. Stapp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
William M. Kallfelz, University of Maryland
Mohsen Shiri Garakani, PACE University
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland |
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September 28 - October 2, 2005 |
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Conference: "Quantum Physics, Process Philosophy, and Matters of Religious Concern"
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Lecture and Panel Discussion with
Shimon Malin, Professor of Physics, Colgate University
B.J. Hiley, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of London
Michael Epperson, Research Professor, Director, Center for Philosophy and the Natural
Sciences, California State University Sacramento
Reginald Cahill, Professor of Physics, Flinders University
David Ray Griffin, Professor, Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, California |
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