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.

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.

July 10, 2021

Cobb Institute, Claremont Graduate University - Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris - Symposium panelists: "Untying the Gordian Knot - Process, Reality, and Context"

Presentation,, Michael Epperson: "Quantum Origins of Ontic Emergence"

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.

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.

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

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

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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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California State University, Sacramento
7:00 - 8:30 pm, Petris Room, University Library (3rd Floor, Room 3023)
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Department of Physics Colloquium
California State University, Sacramento
4:00 - 5:20, Mendocino Hall 1015

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

"Quantity/Quality: The Problem of Measure in Philosophy and Science"

U.C. Davis
Davis, California

Parmenides Foundation - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest, Hungary

5:00 PM, Room 226

Parmenides Foundation - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna, Austria

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

Elias Zafiris

Institute of Mathematics, University of Athens
Visiting Professor
Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös University, Budapest

5:00 PM, Room 226

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

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland

Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels)
Brussels, Belgium

California State University, Chico
Department of Philosophy

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

CPNS and the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy
California State University, Sacramento

3:00-3:50, Brighton Hall, Rm. 204

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)

Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
California State University, Sacramento

1:30-2:45, University Union, Folsom Room (3rd Floor)

University of California Santa Barbara

Claremont Graduate University
Center for Process Studies
Claremont, California

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

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.

University of Athens - Institute of Mathematics
Athens, Greece

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

Europa University Viadrina
Frankfurt-Oder, Germany

Lecture by Michael Epperson
"From Classical Philosophy to Quantum Mechanics: An Evolving Reality"

California State University, Sacramento
University Union, Redwood Room: 6 pm

University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany

Elias Zafiris, Michael Epperson, Karim Bschir

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland

Michael Epperson, Paul Gochet, Ronny Desmet, Michel Weber, Tim Eastman

Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

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

Michael Epperson, David Finkelstein, Henry Stapp, George Shields, Tim Eastman, William Kallfelz, Gary Herstein

California State University Sacramento
Sacramento, California

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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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