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 ---23-October-2018-Workshop-on-Formal-Causation-Ro
 stock-Germany
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Formal Causation, Rostock, Ger
 many
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181023
LOCATION:Rostock, Germany
DESCRIPTION:Formal causation, one of the four trad
 itional kinds of causation distinguished by Aristo
 tle, is currently heavily under-researched and has
  even fallen into disrepute. Formal causation is a
 t play whenever a thing has a certain property bec
 ause it is of a certain kind. Such properties are 
 normally called essential properties. For instance
 , whales have the disposition to breathe with lung
 s because they are mammals. There is an extensive 
 and influential trend in contemporary philosophy s
 tudying causation in terms of dispositions, while 
 the question of why things have some dispositions 
 (or other properties) and lack others in the first
  place has largely been ignored.  The conference w
 ill explore formal causation, i.e., the view that 
 an object having a property such as a disposition 
 can be explained through kind membership. Some of 
 the talks will be historical work, mainly on Arist
 otle, some will be systematic work on the contempo
 rary discussion, and some will combine both histor
 ical and systematic approaches. Especially relevan
 t for formal causation are the contemporary debate
 s about essence and necessity, dependence and grou
 nding, laws of nature, universals, dispositions, a
 nd functions.  The conference is funded through th
 e DFG-project 'Formal Causation in Aristotle and i
 n Analytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science'.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>Formal causati
 on, one of the four traditional kinds of causation
  distinguished by Aristotle, is currently heavily 
 under-researched and has even fallen into disreput
 e. Formal causation is at play whenever a thing ha
 s a certain property because it is of a certain ki
 nd. Such properties are normally called essential 
 properties. For instance, whales have the disposit
 ion to breathe with lungs because they are mammals
 . There is an extensive and influential trend in c
 ontemporary philosophy studying causation in terms
  of dispositions, while the question of why things
  have some dispositions (or other properties) and 
 lack others in the first place has largely been ig
 nored.</p>\n\n  <p>The conference will explore for
 mal causation, i.e., the view that an object havin
 g a property such as a disposition can be explaine
 d through kind membership. Some of the talks will 
 be historical work, mainly on Aristotle, some will
  be systematic work on the contemporary discussion
 , and some will combine both historical and system
 atic approaches. Especially relevant for formal ca
 usation are the contemporary debates about essence
  and necessity, dependence and grounding, laws of 
 nature, universals, dispositions, and functions.</
 p>\n\n  <p>The conference is funded through the DF
 G-project 'Formal Causation in Aristotle and in An
 alytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science'.</p>
 \n
URL:https://www.iph.uni-rostock.de/forschung/forma
 le-verursachung/workshop-formal-causation-rostock-
 22-23-october-2018/
CONTACT:Petter Sandstad at petter.sandstad at uni-
 rostock.de
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