William Kallfelz

updated: October 20, 2009
                                                                                                                                  WMKphoto May 2009WK July 11
       


Recent Papers and Talks (published & publicly archived) & CV
Other Recent Papers (unpublished, works in progress)
Recent Courses Taught and TA'd
Education Artwork website
Athletic Events

    I am a Ph.D. (graduation date: May 23, 2008) in the CPaS (Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences ) program, in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, in which I enrolled for graduate studies in September, 2003.  My areas of specialization are in the philosophy of science, as well as in the philosophy of physics.  My other areas of specialization include mathematical physics, and mathematics.  My area of competence is in the philosophy of language.  In the philosophy of science, my research interests include inter-theoretic reduction, scientific explanation, and ontology.  In the philosophy of physics, my research focuses on the application of Clifford Algebra, with respect to the characterization of theories in certain branches of physics, both fundamental and applied.  To the physicist and engineer, the appeal of Clifford algebras primarily stems from the means by which one may unify the geometric content of a theory's mathematical formalism.  To the philosopher of physics, such instances of Clifford-algebraic geometric unification prove a compelling area of study, for cases in which a theory's ontological content becomes relatively more unified and simplified.  For more information, see the enclosed Abstract, Foreword, and Table of Contents of my dissertation (© April 18, 2008), in the Other Recent Papers (unpublished, works in progress)  section below, as well as the December 6, 2006 presentation the December 7, 2007, and Februay 26, 2007 presentations listed below in the section: Recent Papers and Talks (published & publicly archived)


 
Academic & Professional Curriculum Vita:  click here

Books:

Clifford Algebra: A Case for Geometric and Ontological Unification
(published June 24, 2009)  ISBN: 978-3-639-16423-7.  Saarbruecken: VDM Verlagsservicegesellschaft mbH

Recent Papers (published & publicly archived) and Talks:

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

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

"A Response to G.B. Bagci's 'Ghirardi-Rimini-Collapse Theory and Whiteheadean Process Philosophy'"
(Forthcoming in Process Studies, Natural Science Focus Section, vol. 38, n. 2)

“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.
 


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

"Methodological Fundamentalism" (ppt slides- pdf)
(Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD., December 7, 2007: Abstract of talk )


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

"Geometric-Algebraic Approaches to Quantum Physics (ppt slides-pdf)"
(CPaS  Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD., February 26, 2007)

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

"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)

"The Character of Asymptotic Thought in the Writings of Nicholas of Cusa"
( UVA College at Wise, VA., Medieval-Rennaissance Conference XIX  Sept. 15-17, 2005)

"The History of Physics in Georgia"
(Georgia Council of the Humanities, New Georgia Encyclopedia (on-line), publ. Sept. 1, 2005))

"Contracting Batterman's Asymptotic No-Man's Land: Reduction Rejoins Explanation"
(Philosophy of Science Archives (on-line), University of Pittsburg, August 15, 2005))

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

"Organism and Physics" (co-authored with David R. Finkelstein)
(Process Studies Journal, vol. 26/3-4, Fall-Winter 1997. 
Special Focus Edition: Process Thought and Natural Sciences.  Timothy Eastman, ed., 279-292)

"Suny Auyang's: How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?" (book review)
(Process Studies Journal, vol. 26/3-4, Fall-Winter 1997. 
Special Focus Edition: Process Thought an Natural Sciences.  Timothy Eastman, ed., 324-326)


Other Selected Recent Papers/Works in Progress (unpublished)

Abstract, Foreword, and Table of Contents
(Dissertation Completed and Copyrighted April 18, 2008)

"The Role of Pronouns in the de re/ de dicto Distinction"
(January 12, 2007)

"Expanding Joseph Sneed’s Analysis into Category Theory"
(May 16, 2006)

"Alison Gopnik’s Half-Truth: a Proposal for a More Nuanced Account of Two-Systems Reasoning in Particular Theoretical Domains"
(January 2, 2006)


Recent Courses Taught & TA'd:

PHIL 302 (Business Ethics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM) Visting Assistant Professor, Fall Semester, 2009

PHIL 223G (Ethics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM) Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall Semester, 2009

PHIL 101G (The Art of Wondering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM) Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall Semester, 2009

PHIL 210 (Current Ethical Issues, University of Central Washington, Ellensburg, WA.) Lecturer, Winter Qtr., 2009

PHIL 201 Sect.1 (Introduction to Logic, University of Central Washington, Ellensburg, WA.) Lecturer, Winter & Spring  Qtrs., 2009

PHIL 201 Sect.2 (Introduction to Logic, University of Central Washington, Ellensburg, WA.) Lecturer, Winter & Spring Qtr., 2009

PHIL 210 (Current Ethical Issues, University of Central Washington, Ellensburg, WA.) Lecturer, Fall & Spring Qtr., 2008-9

PHIL 115 Sect.1 (The Meaning of Life, University of Central Washington, Ellensburg, WA.) Lecturer, Fall & Spring Qtrs., 2008-9

PHIL 115 Sect.2 (The Meaning of Life, University of Central Washington, Ellensburg, WA.) Lecturer, Fall Qtr., 2008

PHIL 250 (Philosophy of Science, University of Maryland) Instructor, Fall 2007

PHIL 140 (Contemporary Moral Issues, University of Maryland) TA for Leland Saunders, Spr 2008

Math 261-2 (Calculus I,II) Capitol College, Laurel, MD Adjunct Professor Fall 2007-Spring 2008

PHIL 140 (Contemporary Moral Issues, University of Maryland) TA for Darren Hick, Spr 2007

PHIL 100 (Intro to Philosophy, University of Maryland) TA for Professor S. J. Odell, Fall 2006

PHIL 100 (Intro to Philosophy, University of Maryland) TA for Professor S. J. Odell, Spr 2006

PHIL280 (Intro to Cognitive Science, University of Maryland) Grader for Professor Christopher Cherniak, Spr 2006

MATH 360 (Laplace and Fourier Analysis) Capitol College, Laurel, MD, Adjunct Professor Sp2006

PHIL 100 (University of Maryland) TA for Professor S. J. Odell, Fall 2005

MATH 355 (Numerical Analysis) Capitol College, Laurel, MD, Adjunct Professor, Fall2004-Sp2005

MATH 315 (Modern Abstract Algebra) Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, Assistant Professor Sp 2003

Math 211-213 (Calculus I,II,III) Piedmont College, Assistant Professor 2001-2003

Math 210 (Elementary Statistics) Piedmont College, Assistant Professor 2000-2003

Math 200 (Discrete Mathematics) Piedmont College, Assistant Professor 2002-2003

PHY211-212 (General Physics I,II) Piedmont College, Assistant Professor 2000-2003

IDS 300 (Interdisciplinary Studies) Science & Religion: Relativity, Quantum Theory Section (Piedmont College), Assistant Professor, Spring 2002




Education

Ph.D., Philosophy
(May 23, 2008)

Master of Science in Applied Mathematics
(Dec. 1996)

School of Mathematics
Master of Theological Studies*
(*cum laude, Dec. 1996)
Candler School of Theology
Master of Science in Physics
(June, 1993)

School of Physics
Master of Science
(Sept., 1991)

School of Earth and Amtospheric Sciences
Bachelor of Science in Physics*
minor certificate in Philosophy
(*cum laude, June, 1989)
School of Physics
Department of PhilosophyUniversity of Maryland Georgia Institute of Technology
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology



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The pain of poring over a book, to seek the light of truth, while truth, all the while, doth blind the eyesight
with his look."

-William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost


"Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul
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Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor bleary-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?"


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