Center for Evolutionary Physics (CEP): Social Science Division
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The Center for Evolutionary Physics grows out of decades of
interdisciplinary work by Arthur Iberall, Harry Soodak and associates
such as Warren McCulloch, Rudolfo Llinas, Harold Lasswell, Conrad
Arensberg and others. A number of projects are underway by cross-linked
research teams at different locales. We invite participation of
researchers and students who would like training in physical theory
as applied to the social and biological sciences, which promises
to be one of the exciting frontiers of coming decades. A web site
operated by the Center provides an introduction to Homeokinetic Theory,
one of the contenders in development of a
science of evolutionary complexity. 
Some other web sites on complexity:
The role of the Social Science Division of the Center is to
facilitate developments of foundational theory in the physical
sciences of physics and biochemistry that connect to the development
of social science research in the next decades. Our current goal
is to promote the rigorous development of an evolutionary physics.
Center activities include the training of social scientists
versed in physical theory, the assembly of a library of critical
readings and of biographical teaching materials on the careers
of scientists who have contributed to such developments, and the
production of primers and other publications that explicate the
foundations for physical theory in social science. Central activities
to which these contribute include the discovery of relationships
between physical theory and existing social science theories or
findings, compilation and analysis of datasets that contribute
to theory-testing, the formation of working groups to achieve
these ends, and generation of funding to conduct research, training,
and dissemination. The center conducts activities at a variety
of universities and other centers in the U.S., including CUNY,
UCLA, UCI, USC, U Connecticut, U Michigan, and DOT - Kendall Square.
Physical Science Faculty: Arthur Iberall UCI, Frank Hassler
DOT, Harry Soodak CUNY
Social Science Faculty: Richard Baum UCLA, Alexander Moore
USC, Douglas White UCI, David Wilkinson UCLA, Bill Mace Conn,
Mike Turvey U Conn, Geoff Gerstner, U Mich
Researchers affiliated with the center are currently working
on a seminal volume to serve as an introduction to the physical
basis for social phenomena (Physical Theory in Social Science
Primer) as complex thermodynamic and fluid dynamic systems.
How physical theory is applied to biological, social and cultural
systems is the theme of a projected volume dealing with the following
chapters:
1. History of humankind (events in time and space)
2. Making sense of value systems (memory in complex systems)
3. Introduction to science and systematic study
4. Movement and change: basic ideas in flow systems
5. Cultural systems, including human, as flow systesm
6. Social chemistry of cultural systems
7. Chemistry: general principles
8. Biochemistry of living systems
9. The living organism as a biological-biophysical system
10. Geophysical systems that support life
11. The physical universe
see:
Iberall: How things work, work in progress
Homeokinetics: The Physics of Complex Systems - study group
This group of colleagues debate their own disciplines with each
other in the context of a theoretical framework of systems science,
with an emphasis on viable or self-organizing systems. They pay
attention to physics, with its conservations of energy, mass,
and momentum, to chemistry, with its making and breaking of bonds,
and to general 'input-output' schemes. Emergence within each field
is a topic that is currently being discussed.
Dr. Richard Baum
(rdb1@polisci.ucla.edu)
Professor of Political Science, UCLA 310-825-1987
Dr. Frank L. Hassler
(hassler@adelphia.net)
Frank L. Hassler; 1 Gott St.; Rockport, MA 01966; telno. (978)546-7871
Former Director (retired), Office of Transport & Information Resources, Volpe
National Transportation Systems Center 617-494-2563
Dr. Arthur S. Iberall
(ibby@eclectic.ss.uci.edu)
Researcher, University of California at Irvine 714-768-1963
Dr. Rudolfo Llinás
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University School
of Medicine
Dr. William Mace
(william.mace@mail.trincoll.edu)
Professor of Psychology, Trinity College 203-297-2343
Dr. Alexander Moore
(almoore@usc.edu) Professor
of Anthropology, University of Southern California 213-740-0519
secty 213-977-0330
Dr. Harold Soodak
(soodakccny@aol.com)
Professor Emeritus of Physics, City College of New York 212-650-6887
Dr. Michael Turvey
(cespa1@uconnvm.uconn.edu)
Professor of Psychology, Univesity of Connecticut 203-486-3906
Dr. Douglas White
(drwhite [at] uci.edu) Professor
of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine 714-824-5893
secty 824-5041 FAX 824-4717
Dr. David Wilkinson
(wilkinso@polisci.sscnet.ucla.edu)
Professor of Political Science, UCLA 310-825-3450 FAX 310-825-0778
Addresses:
Arthur Iberall, 5070 Avenida del Sol, Laguna Hills CA 92653
Harry Soodak, Dept. Physics, CUNY, NY
Alexander Moore, Dept of Anthropology, Univ of So Calif.,
502-154, Los Angeles, 90089-0032
David Wilkinson and Rick Baum, Dept. Pol. Sci, UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA 90024-1472
Doug White, Social Science, UCI Irvine, CA 92717
William Mace and Mike Turvey, Dept Psych , U Conn, Storrs,
06268
Geoff Gerstner (U Mich - ethologist), 4755 Bridgeway Dr.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48103 tels. 313-426-8617 313-763-3351
Frank Hassler, DOT, National Transportation Systems Centers,
Kendall Square, Cambridge MA 02142-1903
Richard W. Day, Department of Economics, Univ of So California,
Los Angeles, CA 90089. summer: Box 196, Deer Harbor, WA 98243
Rodolfo Llinas