CORDIS Project
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This project explores the concept of formal causation, focusing on its role in understanding essential properties in nature. It aims to apply this theory to various scientific and philosophical contexts, including Aristotle's original ideas and contemporary debates about causation and explanation.
Causation is a basic feature of the structure of nature and thus in the centre of much research.
Hitherto, however, the distinctive role and applicability of formal causation has been underappreciated.
Formal causation is at play whenever a thing has a certain essential property because it is of a certain kind. E.g., that a particle has negative charge because it is an electron.
Such kind-based explanations are ubiquitous across the sciences, and references to kinds are often indispensable.
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