Ludger Jansen teaches philosophy at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Münster and at the University of Rostock, where he was head of the project "Formal Causation in Aristotle and Analytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science" funded by the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Gruppen und Institutionen (2017) and Tun und Können (2015); and co-editor with Barry Smith of Biomedizinische Ontologie (2008) and with Christoph Jedan of Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike (2010).

Petter Sandstad is a doctoral student at the University of Rostock working on Aristotelian formal causation, and was a researcher on the project "Formal Causation in Aristotle and Analytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science" funded by the German Research Foundation. He has published papers on Socrates and Aristotle, as well as on contemporary metaphysics.

1. Introducing Formal Causation

Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad

Part I: Scholastic Approaches to Formal Causation

2. Form, Intention, Information: From Scholastic Logic to Artificial Intelligence

Gyula Klima

3. Formal Causation: Accidental and Substantial

David S. Oderberg

Part II: Contemporary Approaches to Formal Causation

4. A Non-hylomorphic Account of Formal Causation

Petter Sandstad and Ludger Jansen

5. Formal Causes for Powers Theorists

Giacomo Giannini and Stephen Mumford

6. Away with Dispositional Essences in Trope Theory

Jani Hakkarainen and Markku Keinänen

7. Functional Powers

Michele Paolini Paoletti

Part III: Formal Causation and Dependence

8. An Aristotelian Approach to Existential Dependence

Benjamin Schnieder and Jonas Werner

9. Finean Feature Dependence and the Aristotelian Alternative

Wolfgang Sattler

10. A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes

José Tomás Alvarado and Matthew Tugby

Part IV: Formal Causation in Biology and Cognitive Sciences

11. Form as Cause and the Formal Cause: Aristotle's Answer

James G. Lennox

12. Form, Cause, and Explanation in Biology: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective

Christopher J. Austin

13. Formal Explanation and Mechanisms of Conceptual Representation

Sandeep Prasada