Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on formal causation
"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, explan...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Abingdon :
Routledge
[2021]
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in metaphysics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introducing formal causation / Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad
- Form, intention, information : from scholastic logic to artificial intelligence / Gyula Klima
- Formal causation : accidental and substantial / David S. Oderberg
- 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
- 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
- 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.
