Pietro Pomponazzi on natural causality. A study of his De incantationibus and De fato

In this dissertation I explore Pietro Pomponazzi’s (1462-1525) notion of natural causality, i.e., the connections between causes and effects in natural phenomena, including both final causality and efficient causality. I am interested in exploring in what historical context and from what historical sources Pomponazzi formed his notion of natural causality, and whether his notion of natural causality has any contribution tonbsp;history of natural philosophy. I examine Pomponazzinbsp;notion of natural causality in two frameworks: the history of the concept of natural causality, and the tradition of Aristotelianism. The major texts I use are Pomponazzi’s treatises De incantationibus, De fato, and Quaestio de regressu.status: publishe