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2In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World (review)Journal of Religion 85 (2). 2005.
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55The Creative Universe: The Failure of Mathematical Reductionism in Physics (An Essay)Institute of Art and Ideas News. 2021.
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12The Common Sense of Quantum Theory: Exploring the Internal Relational Structure of Self-Organization in NatureIn Vera Bühlmann, Ludger Hovestadt & Vahid Moosavi (eds.), Coding as Literacy, Birkhäuser. 2015.Recent developments in computer science, particularly ”data-driven procedures“ have opened a new level of design and engineering. This has also affected architecture. The publication collects contributions on Coding as Literacy by computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, cultural theorists, and architects. The main focus in the book is the observation of computer-based methods that go beyond strictly case-based or problem-solution-oriented paradigms. This invites readers to understand …Read more
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9Event-Ontological Quantum Mechanics: A Process Theoretic ApproachIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. 2016.Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpre…Read more
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95RELATIONAL REALISM AND THE ONTOGENETIC UNIVERSE: subject, object, and ontological process in quantum mechanicsAngelaki 25 (3): 108-119. 2020.Amid the wide variety of interpretations of quantum mechanics, the notion of a fully coherent ontological interpretation has seen a promising evolution over the last few decades. Despite this progress, however, the old dualistic categorical constraints of subjectivity and objectivity, correlate with the metrically restricted definition of local and global, have remained largely in place – a reflection of the broader, persistent inheritance of these comfortable strictures throughout the evolution…Read more
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15ContentsIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. 2016.
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13FrontmatterIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. 2016.
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40Physics and speculative philosophy: potentiality in modern science (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpre…Read more
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32Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Cosmology (review)Process Studies 33 (2): 360-362. 2004.
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36Relational Realism: The Evolution of Ontology to Praxiology in the Philosophy of Nature (review)Process Studies 39 (2): 373-374. 2010.(2009). Relational Realism: The Evolution of Ontology to Praxiology in the Philosophy of Nature. World Futures: Vol. 65, Process Thought, Science and Philosophy, pp. 19-41
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9Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Cosmology (review)Process Studies 33 (2): 360-362. 2004.
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166Taking Heisenberg's Potentia SeriouslyInternational Journal of Quantum Foundations 4 (2): 158-172. 2018.It is argued that quantum theory is best understood as requiring an ontological duality of res extensa and res potentia, where the latter is understood per Heisenberg’s original proposal, and the former is roughly equivalent to Descartes’ ‘extended substance.’ However, this is not a dualism of mutually exclusive substances in the classical Cartesian sense, and therefore does not inherit the infamous ‘mind-body’ problem. Rather, res potentia and res extensa are proposed as mutually implicative on…Read more
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14Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; Relational Realism [ontological interpretation o…Read more
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10IndexIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. pp. 267-276. 2016.
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99Relational realism: The evolution of ontology to praxiology in the philosophy of natureWorld Futures 65 (1). 2009.With the advent of quantum theory, the philosophical distinction between “what appears to be” and “what is reasoned to be” has once again, after several centuries of easy dismissal by classical mechanistic materialism, become an important feature of physics. In recent well-regarded interpretations of quantum physics, including those proposed by Robert Griffiths, Roland Omn s, and Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, we have seen careful investigations into the physical (i.e., not “merely philosophic…Read more
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90Quantum Mechanics and Relational RealismProcess Studies 38 (2): 340-367. 2009.By the relational realist interpretation of wave function collapse, the quantum mechanical actualization of potentia is defined as a decoherence-driven process by which each actualization (in “orthodox” terms, each measurement outcome) is conditioned both by physical and logical relations with the actualities conventionally demarked as “environmental” or external to that particular outcome. But by the relational realist interpretation, the actualization-in-process is understood as internally rel…Read more
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36Foundations of Relational Realism presents an intuitive interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on a revised decoherent histories interpretation, structured within a category theoretic topological formalism. If there is a central conceptual framework that has reliably borne the weight of modern physics as it ascends into the twenty-first century, it is the framework of quantum mechanics. Because of its enduring stability in experimental application, physics has today reached heights that not …Read more
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16Quantum Theory and Process Metaphysics: The Mechanics of ConcrescenceIn Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 205-222. 2008.Gathering 115 entries written by 101 internationally renowned experts in their fields, the Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought aims at canvassing the current state of knowledge in Whiteheadian scholarship and at identifying promising directions for future investigations through (internal) cross-elucidation and (external) interdisciplinary development. Two kinds of entries are weaved together in order to interpret Whitehead secundum Whitehead and to read him from the vantage point of interdi…Read more
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35Bridging Necessity And Contingency In Quantum Mechanics: Potentiality, Actuality, and the Scientific Rehabilitation of Process OntologyIn Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson & David Ray Griffin (eds.), Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science, De Gruyter. pp. 55-106. 2016.Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpre…Read more
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California State University, SacramentoConsortium for Philosophy and The Natural SciencesResearch Professor
Sacramento, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |