Books, Papers, and Presentations

Books:

Kallfelz, William Clifford Algebra: A Case for Geometric and Ontological Unification

(published June 24, 2009) ISBN: 978-3-639-16423-7. Saarbruecken: VDM Verlagsservicegesellschaft mbH

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

Recent Papers (published & publicly archived) and Conference Presentations

Kallfelz, William M. “ The Liberal Characteristic of the Special Sciences: A Case Study in Quantum Computation“. Presented to the 110th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 15-17, 2018 (Session XX Philosophy, March 17). (Click here for the manuscript of my paper it's based on. Click here for handout on more technical details accompanying Power Point.)

Kallfelz, William M. “ Reviving Emerson in Contemporary Environmental Ethics“. Presented to the Friends of the Noxubee Nature Center, Noxubee Nature Series Forum March 2, 2107

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. 2016.

Kallfelz, William M. “ Natural Necessity and Structural Realism (Ontic and Methodological) ”(ppt file), presented to the 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS 2015), Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 3-8, 2015 (presentation in section B.3.6, Friday, August 7th, 17:00-19:00) http://clmps2015.sched.org (See also pdf file: Handout for presentation )

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.htm

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. "Ontic Structural Realism, Information, and Natural Necessity: Where Naturalism and Analytic Metaphysics Can Find Common Ground'" Philosophy of Science Archives (on-line), University of Pittsburgh, June 4, 2013.

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" presented February 21, 2013. at the Mississippi Academy of the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science Division, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.

Kallfelz, William M. "Teaching Environmental Ethics at Mississippi State University: Some Reflections,”Mississippi’s Journal of Sustainable Living, Daniel Doyle, ed., Spring 2013. Gaining Ground Sustainability Institute of Mississippi http://www.ggsim.org

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."Modal Rationalism and Constructive Realism: Models and their Modality'"

( Philosophy of Science Archives (on-line), University of Pittsburg, July 27, 2010)

Kallfelz, William M. “Clifford Algebraic Computational Fluid Mechanics: A New Class of Experiments,” The Center for Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: A Challenge to Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, October 15, 2010)

Kallfelz, William M. ."A Response to G.B. Bagci's 'Ghirardi-Rimini-Collapse Theory and Whiteheadean Process Philosophy'"

Process Studies Journal, Natural Science Focus Section, vol. 38, n. 2, Fall-Winter, 2009.

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. "Embedding Fundamental Aspects of the Relational Blockworld Interpretation in Geometric (or Clifford) Algebra " Philosophy of Science Archives (on-line), University of Pittsburgh, April 3, 2007.

Kallfelz, William M. "Methodological Fundamanetalism: Or Why Batterman's Different Notions of 'Fundamentalism' May not Make a Difference" (Philosophy of Science Archives (on-line), University of Pittsburgh, June 24, 2006.

Kallfelz, William M. "Getting Something for Nothing: Towards a Future Information Theory Based on Vacuum Microtopology" (International Association of NanoTechnology Conference Proceedings, San Francisco, Oct 31-Nov 4, 2005.

Kallfelz, William M. "The Character of Asymptotic Thought in the Writings of Nicholas of Cusa" ( University of Virginia College at Wise, VA., Medieval-Rennaissance Conference XIX Sept. 15-17, 2005.

Kallfelz, William M. "The History of Physics in Georgia" Georgia Council of the Humanities, New Georgia Encyclopaedia (on-line), September 1, 2005.

Kallfelz, William M.“Some Correspondence Principles between Clifford Quantization and Spacetime Topology.”(1999 Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 20-26, 1999, Atlanta, GA.

Finkelstein, David R. & Kallfelz, William M.

"Organism and Physics" )

Process Studies Journal: Special Focus Edition: Process Thought and Natural Sciences, vol. 26/3-4, Fall-Winter 1997, 279-292.

Kallfelz, William M. "Suny Auyang's: How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?" (book review) Process Studies Journal: Special Focus Edition: Process Thought and Natural Sciences, vol. 26/3-4, Fall-Winter 1997, 324-6.

Colloquia and Invited Presentations

Kallfelz, William M. Constructive Mathematics for Physics-Part II Presentation for the Mathematics Club, Mississippi State University, November 27, 2018.

Kallfelz, William M. Constructive Mathematics for Physics-Part I Presentation for the Mathematics Club, Mississippi State University, October 23, 2018.

Kallfelz, William M. “The Qur’an as Sacred Text and Icon.” Presented to the Shackouls Honors College Tea and Text Series, Mississippi State University. February 2, 2018.

Kallfelz, William M. What is Ontic Structural Realism ? (pdf) Guest presentation, Philosophy of Science (PHI 4143, Dr. Michael Bruno), Department of Philosophy & Religion, Mississippi State University, October 28, 2014. (See also ppt file: What is Ontic Structural Realism ? )

Kallfelz, William M. Simplest Quantified Modal Logic and Actualism Presentation for the Mathematics Club, Mississippi State University, September 16, 2014.

Kallfelz, William M .Actualism and Naturalism: How do they Relate? Presentation for the Philosophy and Religion Club, Mississippi State University, September 10, 2014.

Kallfelz, William M.Objectivity-Some Reflections Guest presentation, Honors Forum (Hon 1081-Drs. Rebecca Smith & Seth Oppenheimer) Shackhouls Honors College, Mississippi State University, September 2, 2014.

Kallfelz, William M. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Graduate Statistics Colloquium, Mississippi State Structural Realism and the Foundations of Physics" January 26, 2012.

Kallfelz, William M. "Is the Conceivable Possible and Vice Versa?" Philosophy & Religion Club, Dept. of Philosophy-joint colloquium, Mississippi State University, April 21, 2011)

Kallfelz, William M. "The Bohr-Einstein Debate, and What Stephen Yablo Has to Do with It"

(Department of Physics & Astronomy and Dept.of Philosophy & Religion-joint colloquium, Mississippi State University, Sept. 23, 2010.

Kallfelz, William M.

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

Kallfelz, William M. "Transformation Reduction 'Precisified' Through Structuralism'" (Department of Philosophy Presentation, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM., Sept. 23, 2009)

Kallfelz, William M. "Models and Asymptotes: A Dialogue between Pre-Modern and Post-Modern Epistemic Modes'" Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Winter Colloquium. Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA., Feb.17, 2009)

Kallfelz, William M. ."A Response to G.B. Bagci's 'Ghirardi-Rimini-Collapse Theory and Whiteheadean Process Philosophy'"

Process Studies Journal, Natural Science Focus Section, vol. 38, n. 2, Fall-Winter, 2009.

Kallfelz, William M. "Response to Jay Bachrach's 'Physics and Time'" (Natural Science Seminar Series, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA., October 10, 2008.

Kallfelz, William M. "Methodological Fundamentalism" Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD., December 7, 2007.

Kallfelz, William M. "Geometric-Algebraic Approaches to Quantum Physics (ppt slides-pdf)" Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPaS) Colloquium. University of Maryland, College Park, MD., February 26, 2007.