Remarks on the Ontology of Living Beings and the Causality of their Behavior

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Editorial Introduction XI
5. Part I: Substantiality and Causality – Different Approaches
6. Substantiality and Causality. Classical and Transcendental Approach 3
7. Part II: Causal Aspects of Substance
8. Remarks on the Ontology of Living Beings and the Causality of their Behavior 21
9. Tropes, Causal Processes and Functional Laws 35
10. Forms of Judgment as a Link between Mind and the Concepts of Substance and Cause 51
11. “I am a Force” – An Attempt of Ontological Interpretation of Ingarden’s Metaphor 67
12. Part III: Substantialistic Background of Causation
13. The Causal Structure of the World in Ingarden’s Ontology 93
14. The Case for Agent-Causation 113
15. Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality 129
16. The Common Cause Principle as a special case of the Principle of Sufficient Reason 151
17. Part IV: Extension as a Constituent of Substance and Causality
18. Causality and Time. Some Remarks on Bergson’s Metaphysics 165
19. The Forms of Extension 175
20. Authors of Contributed Papers 189
21. Author Index 193
22. Subject Index 196