Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation

Ludger Jansen, Petter Sandstad (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-72336-1 (ISBN)

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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 is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for contemporary issues, such as causation, explanation, laws of nature, functions, essence, modality, and metaphysical grounding.

The introduction to the volume covers the history of theories of formal causation and points out why we need a theory of formal causation in contemporary philosophy. Part I is concerned with scholastic approaches to formal causation, while Part II presents four contemporary approaches to formal causation. The three chapters in Part III explore various notions of dependence and their relevance to formal causation. Part IV, finally, discusses formal causation in biology and cognitive sciences.

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation will be of interest to advanced graduate students and researchers working on contemporary Aristotelian approaches to metaphysics and philosophy of science.

This volume includes contributions by José Tomás Alvarado, Christopher J. Austin, Giacomo Giannini, Jani Hakkarainen, Ludger Jansen, Markku Keinänen, Gyula Klima, James G. Lennox, Stephen Mumford, David S. Oderberg, Michele Paolini Paoletti, Sandeep Prasada, Petter Sandstad, Wolfgang Sattler, Benjamin Schnieder, Matthew Tugby, and Jonas Werner.

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.

Introducing Formal Causation
Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad

Part I: Scholastic Approaches to Formal Causation

Form, Intention, Information: From Scholastic Logic to Artificial Intelligence
Gyula Klima

Formal Causation: Accidental and Substantial
David S. Oderberg

Part II: Contemporary Approaches to Formal Causation

A Non-hylomorphic Account of Formal Causation
Petter Sandstad and Ludger Jansen

Formal Causes for Powers Theorists
Giacomo Giannini and Stephen Mumford

Away with Dispositional Essences in Trope Theory
Jani Hakkarainen and Markku Keinänen

Functional Powers
Michele Paolini Paoletti

Part III: Formal Causation and Dependence

An Aristotelian Approach to Existential Dependence
Benjamin Schnieder and Jonas Werner

Finean Feature Dependence and the Aristotelian Alternative
Wolfgang Sattler

A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes
José Tomás Alvarado and Matthew Tugby

Part IV: Formal Causation in Biology and Cognitive Sciences

Form as Cause and the Formal Cause: Aristotle’s Answer
James G. Lennox

Form, Cause, and Explanation in Biology: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective
Christopher J. Austin

Formal Explanation and Mechanisms of Conceptual Representation

Sandeep Prasada

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
Zusatzinfo	5 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-367-72336-0 / 0367723360
ISBN-13	978-0-367-72336-1 / 9780367723361
Zustand	Neuware