Substantiality and Causality

Citing the fundamental role in contemporary ontology that notions of substance and causality still play, the editors hope to reveal some aspects worthy of debate that could stimulate further inquiry. Two rival approaches to substantiality and causality are presented--ontological and transcendental--followed by studies of substance showing causal aspects and investigations of causality referencing substance. Finally, there are two studies of extension which conceptually undergird both substantiality and causality. There are 11 essays divided into four parts: substantiality and causality—different approaches; causal aspects of substance; substantialistic background of causation; extension as a constituent of substance and causality. Essays are: Substantiality and causality. Classical and transcendental approach; remarks on the ontology of living beings and the causality of their behavior; tropes, causal processes and functional laws; forms of judgment as a link between mind and the concepts of substance and cause; “I am a force”--an attempt of ontological interpretation of Ingarden’s metaphor; the causal structure of the world in Ingarden’s ontology; the case for agent-causation; consciousness, intentionality, and causality; the common cause principle as a special case of the principle of sufficient reason; causality and time. Some remarks on Bergson’s metaphysics; the forms of extension. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Miros?aw Szatkowski, University ofMunich, Germany.
Marek Rosiak, ?odz University, Poland.