Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation (Hardcover, 1)

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 Keinanen 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 Jose Tomas 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