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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.

     
 

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"

     
September 26-28, 2019   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

     
August 21-22, 2019   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"

     
June 17-20, 2018   U.C. Berkeley - Eighteenth Annual Biosemiotics Gathering - UC Berkeley

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

     
February 8-12, 2018   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.

     
November 13-15, 2017   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.

     
April 19-23, 2017   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

     
January 13-16, 2016   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

     
June 4-7, 2015   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

     
November 25-26, 2014   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

     
November 19, 2014   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   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.

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November 6, 2014   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

     
May 22-24, 2014   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

 
April 5-6, 2014   Presentation: Michael Epperson, “Potentiality and Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics"

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

U.C. Davis
Davis, California

 
October 24, 2013   Lecture by Elias Zafiris: “A Category Theoretical Approach to Quantum Physics

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

     
October 9, 2013   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

     
October 8, 2013   Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris: “Relational Realist Philosophy and the Topological Approach to Quantum Mechanics

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

 
October 3-6, 2013   Conference: “Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2013”

Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna, Austria

 
August 24-26, 2013   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
     
August 21-23, 2013   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

     
April 3, 2013   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

     
March 7, 2013   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

     
February 4-7, 2013   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

     
February 1-3, 2013   Presentation: Michael Epperson: “Quantum Theory and Metaphysics”

Fourth Metalithicum Klausur Symposium

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland

 
December 12, 2012   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

 
December 6, 2012   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

 
October 27-28, 2012   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

 
October 25, 2012   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

 
October 24, 2012   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)

 
October 23, 2012   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)

 
October 18-21, 2012   Panelists: Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris - Symposium: “The Decline Effect: Evidence, Explanations, and Future Directions”

University of California Santa Barbara

 
December 2, 2011   Presentation, Michael Epperson: “Relational Realism, Quantum Mechanics, and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead” – Conference: “Whitehead: The Next Generation”

Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, California

     
November 2, 2011   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

     
October 5-8, 2011   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

     
June 15-20, 2011   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

     
February 17, 2011   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.

     
October 19-23, 2010   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

     
July 19-20, 2010   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

     
July 4-7, 2010   "International Symposium on Generalizing Quantum Theory"

Europa University Viadrina
Frankfurt-Oder, Germany

     
February 23, 2010   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

     
February 2, 2010   Workshop: "Relational Realism and Generalized Quantum Theory"

University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany

     
January 29-30, 2010   Workshop: "Quantum Logical Causality, Category Theory, and the Philosophy of Whitehead"

Elias Zafiris, Michael Epperson, Karim Bschir

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland

     
June 26-28, 2009   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

     
June 13-20, 2009  

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

     
August 14-17, 2008   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

     
August 15-18, 2007   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

     
September 28 - October 2, 2005   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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