This book is devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. It traces the historical development of formal causation and demonstrates its relevance for causation, explanation, laws of nature, functions, essence, modality, and metaphysical grounding.
This book is devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. It traces the historical development of formal causation and demonstrates its relevance for causation, explanation, laws of nature, functions, essence, modality, and metaphysical grounding.
Ludger Jansen teaches philosophy at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Münster and at the University of Rostock, where he was head of the project "Formal Causation in Aristotle and Analytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science" funded by the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Gruppen und Institutionen (2017) and Tun und Können (2015); and co-editor with Barry Smith of Biomedizinische Ontologie (2008) and with Christoph Jedan of Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike (2010). Petter Sandstad is a doctoral student at the University of Rostock working on Aristotelian formal causation, and was a researcher on the project "Formal Causation in Aristotle and Analytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science" funded by the German Research Foundation. He has published papers on Socrates and Aristotle, as well as on contemporary metaphysics.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introducing Formal Causation Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad Part I: Scholastic Approaches to Formal Causation 2. Form, Intention, Information: From Scholastic Logic to Artificial Intelligence Gyula Klima 3. Formal Causation: Accidental and Substantial David S. Oderberg Part II: Contemporary Approaches to Formal Causation 4. A Non-hylomorphic Account of Formal Causation Petter Sandstad and Ludger Jansen 5. Formal Causes for Powers Theorists Giacomo Giannini and Stephen Mumford 6. Away with Dispositional Essences in Trope Theory Jani Hakkarainen and Markku Keinänen 7. Functional Powers Michele Paolini Paoletti Part III: Formal Causation and Dependence 8. An Aristotelian Approach to Existential Dependence Benjamin Schnieder and Jonas Werner 9. Finean Feature Dependence and the Aristotelian Alternative Wolfgang Sattler 10. A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes José Tomás Alvarado and Matthew Tugby Part IV: Formal Causation in Biology and Cognitive Sciences 11. Form as Cause and the Formal Cause: Aristotle's Answer James G. Lennox 12. Form, Cause, and Explanation in Biology: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective Christopher J. Austin 13. Formal Explanation and Mechanisms of Conceptual Representation Sandeep Prasada
1. Introducing Formal Causation Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad Part I: Scholastic Approaches to Formal Causation 2. Form, Intention, Information: From Scholastic Logic to Artificial Intelligence Gyula Klima 3. Formal Causation: Accidental and Substantial David S. Oderberg Part II: Contemporary Approaches to Formal Causation 4. A Non-hylomorphic Account of Formal Causation Petter Sandstad and Ludger Jansen 5. Formal Causes for Powers Theorists Giacomo Giannini and Stephen Mumford 6. Away with Dispositional Essences in Trope Theory Jani Hakkarainen and Markku Keinänen 7. Functional Powers Michele Paolini Paoletti Part III: Formal Causation and Dependence 8. An Aristotelian Approach to Existential Dependence Benjamin Schnieder and Jonas Werner 9. Finean Feature Dependence and the Aristotelian Alternative Wolfgang Sattler 10. A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes José Tomás Alvarado and Matthew Tugby Part IV: Formal Causation in Biology and Cognitive Sciences 11. Form as Cause and the Formal Cause: Aristotle's Answer James G. Lennox 12. Form, Cause, and Explanation in Biology: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective Christopher J. Austin 13. Formal Explanation and Mechanisms of Conceptual Representation Sandeep Prasada
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