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, explanation, laws of nature, functions, essence, modality, and metaphysical grounding.The book begins with a group of essays that develop and criticise various contemporary approaches to formal causation. Part II takes on modal issues that have been closely connected with form and essence. In Part III, the essays explore issues from biology, including form, es…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Sandstad, Petter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-00-035791-2
- EAN: 9781000357912
- Produktnummer: 35396958
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 11 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 6 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Ludger Jansen is Acting Professor for Interdisciplinary Questions in Philosophy and Theology at the Ruhr University Bochum, as well as a private lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Rostock where he is 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 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.
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