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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.
Contents
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
