Substantiality and Causality.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Introduction -- Part I Substantiality and Causality - Dierent Approaches -- Substantiality and Causality. Classical and Transcendental Approach -- Part II Causal Aspects of Substance -- Remarks on the Ontology of Living Beings and the Causality of their Behavior -- Two arguments for the ontological difference between corporeal and psychic reality -- The somatic as symptom of the psychic -- An example for the causality of the psychic as such -- A general model proposal: psychophysical causality through favor -- Tropes, Causal Processes and Functional Laws -- Introduction -- Quantity tropes: the basic constituents of objects -- Functional laws -- Tropes and causal processes -- Conclusion -- Forms of Judgment as a Link between Mind and the Concepts of Substance and Cause -- Introduction -- The original unity of self-consciousness (Kant) -- The logical deduction of the primitive forms of judgment from the original unity of self-consciousness (Kant) -- Concept -- Judgment -- Objective validity of the concepts of substance and cause -- "I am a Force" - An Attempt of Ontological Interpretation of Ingarden's Metaphor -- The metaphor of force in the essay Man and Time -- The philosophical concept of force -- The possibility of application of the concept of force to Ingarden's ontology -- Part III Substantialistic Background of Causation -- The Causal Structure of the World in Ingarden's Ontology -- The causal typology of events and their notation -- Determinism and the poles of the real world -- Causal life of monads and other systems -- The problem of chance -- Freedom in relatively isolated systems -- Conclusion -- The Case for Agent-Causation -- Symbols -- Conventions -- A picture of the causation of physical events as viewed in 19th-century physics.

Three alternative pictures of the causation of physical events as viewed in 20th-century physics -- Central agent-causal concepts -- A sucient and agent-causal analysis of an action - of raising one's arm -- Nine insucient analyses of raising one's arm -- Deviant causal chains? -- Causal responsibility and moral responsibility -- Illustrations -- Seven objections to agent-causation answered -- Agent-causation and freedom of the will -- The way from freely willed behaviour to agent-causation -- Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality -- The problem(s) -- Intentionality -- Formal causality in cognition -- Consciousness and the world -- The Common Cause Principle as a special case of the Principle of Sucient Reason -- Introduction -- Reichenbach's formulation and its variants -- Apparent counterexamples -- Arguments from conservation principles -- The "sea levels vs. bread prices" arguments -- The EPR correlations -- Conclusion: Principle of Suffcient Reason revisited -- Part IV Extension as a Constituent of Substance and Causality -- Causality and Time. Some Remarks on Bergson's Metaphysics -- Introduction -- Causality and space -- Non-spatiality and temporality of consciousness -- The problem of causal relation between the world and mind -- Conclusion -- The Forms of Extension -- The extension as ontological dierence -- Ontological explanation of extension -- A new direction for discussion on extension -- An attempt at clari˙cation of extension -- Toward topological categorial ontology -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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