Dr. William Kallfelz 

Selected Publications, Conferences, and Grants

 

Books: 

 

• Kallfelz, William M. Clifford Algebra: A Case for Geometric and Ontological Unification. Saarbruecken: VDM Verlagsservicegesellschaft mbH, 2009. Available on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/kallfelz-Clifford-Alg

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• Kallfelz, William M. Introduction to Religion: An Integrative and Intuitive Approach (electronic textbook). Dubue, IA: Great River Learning- August, 2019.                                                                                                              ISBN: 9781644960516 https://www.greatriverlearning.com/product-details/1649

 

 

Papers, Articles (Published and Publicly Archived):

 

• Kallfelz, William M., "Ontic Structural Realism , Information, and Natural Necessity: Where Naturalism and Analytic Metaphysics Can Find Common Ground,” (posted: June 4, 2013) http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9814/

• Kallfelz, William M., "Modal Rationalism and Constructive Realism: Models and Their Modality,” (posted: July 27, 2010) http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00005489/

• Kallfelz, William M., "A Response to G.B. Bagci's 'Ghirardi-Rimini-Collapse Theory and Whiteheadean Process Philosophy',” Process Studies, Natural Sciences Focus Section, Pete Gunter, ed., vol. 38 n.2, 2009, pp. 394-411.

• Kallfelz, William M., “Physical Emergence and Process Ontology,” World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, special issue on process thought and natural science, special editors: Franz Riffert and Timothy Eastman, vol. 65 issue 1, 2009, pp. 42-60.

• Kallfelz, William M., “Methodological Fundamentalism: or Why Batterman’s Different Notions of ‘Fundamentalism’ may not Make a Difference” (posted: June 16, 2006) http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002801

• Kallfelz, William M: “The History of Physics in Georgia” The New Georgia Encyclopaedia (online) published 9/01/2005 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2776

• David R Finkelstein & W. M Kallfelz, “Organism And Physics,” Process Studies, Fall-Winter 1997, vol 26/ 3-4, pp. 279-292.

• Kallfelz, William M., Process Studies (Book Review) “Sunny Auyang’s ‘How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?’” Process Studies, Fall-Winter 1997, vol 26/ 3-4, pp. 324-326.

 

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Conference Presentations (international and regional):  

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• Kallfelz, William M. “Ontic and Methodological Structural Realism vis-a-vis Semirealism”, contributed paper and presented to the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee, February 19-20, 2016. Section 7H (2:00-2:50 pm) February 20

• Kallfelz, William M. “Commentary on Anthony Parisi's "Tropes Within Tropes"”, panel commentator at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee, February 19-20, 2016. Section 4E (9:00-9:50am) February 20.

• Kallfelz, William M. “Natural Necessity and Structural Realism (Ontic and Methodological)”, contributed paper to the 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS 2015), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 3-8, 2015. Presented August 7 (Section B.3.6: Metaphysical Issues in the Philosophy of Science), 17:00-19:00. http://clmps2015.sched.org

• Kallfelz, William M. Quantum Time and Structural Realism Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 28, 2014.

  http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Lunchtime_talks/lunchtime_2013-14/abstracts/feb_14_details.html

• Kallfelz, William M. Ontic Structural Realism and Natural Necessity , presented at the Forum Scientarium International Summer School on the Philosophical History of Space and Time, Tuebingen University, Tuebingen Baden-Wuettenberg, Germany, August 5-9, 2013. Preprint (full text) of paper

• Kallfelz, William M. (panel commentator) “Comments Session 2B: Christianity and Gender in the Middle Ages" April 27, 2013. at the Symposium for History Undergraduate Research (SHUR). Uncovering Buried Voices: Issues of Conflict and Change Through History (April 26-27), History Department, Mississippi State University.

• Kallfelz, William M. "Ontic Structural Realism and Information" Mississippi Academy of the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science Division, The University of Souther Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS., February 21, 2013.

• Kallfelz, William M. American Philosophical Association-Eastern Division Meeting, "Whitehead's Natural Philosophy: A Meta-Physical Framework for Productive Physics," –Dec. 28, 2011. (Session GIII-8, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Sept., 2011, vol. 85, Issue I, p. 53) Preliminary Program also posted at: http://web02.gonzaga.edu/faculty/henning/sspp/meetings.html

• Kallfelz, William M. Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: A Challenge to Philosophy of Science Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh[5]

  October 16, 2010, Presented: “Clifford Algebraic Computational Fluid Mechanics: A New Class of Experiments.” Paper available (volume 640) Phil Sci Archive: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8348/

• Kallfelz, William M. Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, “Structural Realism Meets Contextual Realism: Bridging the Gap in Foundations of Mathematics and Physics,” March 4th, 2010.

  Kallfelz, William M. Department of Physics, and Philosophy & Religion (joint colloquium), Mississippi State University,Starkville, MS. "The Bohr-Einstein Debate, and What Stephen Yablo Has to Do with It" September 27th, 2010.

• Kallfelz, William M. “Getting Something Out of Nothing: Towards a Future Information Theory Based on Vacuum Microtopology,”[3] Proceeding to the International Congress of Nanotechnology 2005. October 31, 2005-November 4, 2005, San Francisco. Presentation materials also posted at: https://www.ianano.org/Presentation-ICNT2005/Lectures.html

• Kallfelz, William M. Department of History and Philosophy University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XIX, “The Character of Asymptotic Thought in the Works of Nicholas of Cusa.” 

http://www.wise.virginia.edu/college_relations/documents/medrensched05.pdf

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Grants and Distinctions:

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• Forum Scientarum, Tuebingen University, Tuebingen, Baden-Wuettenberg, Germany-Participant and presenter, in the International Summer School on the Philosophical Hiistory of Space and Time, August 5-9, 2013

   

• Fetzer-Franklin Fund, quantum praxiology research fund ($190,000) awarded March 24, 2008. “Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics.” Research team: Dr. Michael Epperson (Philosophy of Science Specialist and Team Leader and Principal Investigator), Dr. Timothy Eastman (Space Physicist and Project Manager and Principal Co-Investigator), Dr. David R. Finkelstein (Senior Quantum Physicist), Dr., Henry Stapp (Senior Quantum Physicist). Consultants: Dr. Efstraitios Manousakis (Physicist), Dr. Jorge Nobo (Philosopher), Dr. George W. Shields (Philosopher), Dr. Mohsen-Shiri Garakani (Mathematical Physicist), William Kallfelz (Physics and Philosophy of Science). Research team homepage:

  http://www.csus.edu/cpns/research.html

   

• Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series (STARS) Research Planning Grant ($20,000), awarded June 15, 2007. “Quantum Physical Investigations into the Causal and Logical Orders and the Physical Basis of Possibility.” Research team: Dr. Timothy Eastman (Space Physicist and Project Manager), Dr. Michael Epperson (Philosophy of Science Specialist and Team Leader), Dr. David R. Finkelstein (Senior Quantum Physicist), Dr. Mohsen-Shiri Garakani (Mathematical Physicist), William Kallfelz (Mathematical Physicist), Dr. Henry Stapp (Senior Quantum Physicist). http://www.ctns.org/stars_planning.html

   

• Participant, Center for Quantum Studies, George Mason University, (Fairfax, Virginia). Worksop/Seminar: “Non-Locality in Quantum Dynamics,” hosted by Drs. Yakir Aharanov and Sandu Popescu, February 12-13, 2007.

   

• National Science Foundation Grant Recipient; for attending IQSA 2004 (International Quantum Structures Association Biennual Meeting) meeting, held July 17-22, at the University of Denver, Colorado. http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/IQSA/conferences.html 

   

• Georgia Council of the Humanities: Commission to write “The History of Physics in Georgia” to appear in the on-line NewGeorgia Encyclopedia. Originally commissioned: March 1, 2003. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp

   

• KIRA 2002/1998: Recipient, alumni fellowship (2002 conference). Recipient of graduate/post-graduate fellowship interdisciplinary program in sciences and humanities (held at Amherst College MA August 1 1998-August 15, 1998.) http://www.kira.org/

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