Bergson-Arg Philosophers

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ISBN: 9780415203869 | 0415203864
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/26/1999

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Preface

viii

List of abbreviations

Extensity and Intensity

(16)

Introduction

The three main cases

(2)

Sensations

(2)

The issue over intensive magnitudes

(4)

Psychophysics

(2)

Conclusions

(4)

Space and Time

(50)

Introduction

Space and counting

Space and extension. Kinds of multiplicity

(4)

Duration

(6)

Zeno

(7)

Absolute and relative. Absolute motion

(4)

Absolute space

(2)

Absolute duration. The two stages in Bergson's thought

(2)

The first stage

(4)

The second stage

(4)

Conclusions on the two stages

(1)

Criticism. The symmetry of space and time

(3)

Bergson and Einstein

(8)

Free Will

(21)

Introduction. Two forms of determinism

Bergon's strategy

(2)

Bergson on psychological determinism

(2)

Nature of causality. Causal and logical necessity

(2)

Determinism as due to confusion of two views of causality

(3)

Causal and logical necessity again

(3)

Libertarianism

(2)

Bergson's own view of free will

(5)

The Metaphysics of Change and Substance

(24)

Introduction

The escape from realism and idealism

(3)

The role of images

(2)

Categories. Change and essence

(4)

Pure change?

(3)

The substrate and its role

101

(2)

Permanence

103

(1)

Substance

104

(4)

Things and processes

108

(2)

Conclusion

110

(2)

Problems of Mind and Body

112

(29)

Introduction

Perception

114

(4)

Memory

118

(7)

Perception and memory

125

(3)

Rhythms of duration

128

(3)

Perception and action

131

(2)

The reality of the past

133

(2)

Mind and body

135

(6)

Epistemology

141

(29)

Introduction

Intelligence and instinct

Consciousness: its two senses

147

(3)

Instinct and intuition

150

(3)

Intelligence and intuition: preliminaries

153

(2)

Immediacy

155

(2)

Concepts and language: the problem

157

(2)

Immediacy and the role of intuition

159

(3)

Concepts and language: development of the problem

162

(2)

The nature of philosophy

164

(3)

Conclusion: the role of mathematics

167

(3)

Biology

170

(18)

Introduction

The nature of life

171

(5)

Philosophical arguments

176

(3)

Scientific arguments

179

(2)

The elan vital

181

(3)

Conservation and entropy. Order and disorder

184

(4)

The Comic

188

(9)

Introduction. Art and comedy

The basis of the theory

190

(3)

Development of the theory

193

(4)

Morality and Mysticism

197

(23)

Introduction

Obligation

199

(2)

The question of justification

201

(3)

Closed and open morality

204

(4)

Justice and value

208

(2)

The hero

210

(1)

Myth-making

211

(3)

Magic

214

(1)

Mysticism

215

(3)

God

218

(1)

Epilogue

219

(1)

Bibliography

220

(7)

Index

227

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