The Metaphysics of Downward Causation: Rediscovering the Formal Cause: with Benedikt P. Göcke, “On the Importance of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's Panentheism”; Mariusz Tabaczek, “The Metaphysics of Downward Causation: Rediscovering the Formal Cause”; and Zachary Simpson, “Emergence and Non-Personal Theology”

The methodological nonreductionism of contemporary biology opens an interesting discussion on the level of ontology and the philosophy of nature. The theory of emergence (EM), and downward causation (DC) in particular, bring a new set of arguments challenging not only methodological, but also ontolo...

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Main Author: Tabaczek, Mariusz 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
In: Zygon
Year: 2013, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 380-404
Further subjects:B formal cause
B downward causation
B Emergence
B supervenience
B nonreductive physicalism
B efficient cause
B higher-level properties
B Aristotle
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