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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
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Introduction Yasushi Hirai Keio University
The challenge of Matter and Memory
High-dimensional science metaphysical puzzles
Consciousness and time in the sciences since the 1980s
Mind and time in analytic metaphysics
The science of metaphysics
Towards a theoretical application of Bergsonian philosophy
Notes
References
Part One Memory and Mind
1 A Secret Connection Between the Dualities Actual/Virtual, and Intelligence/Intuition in Bergson’s Metaphysics Paul-Antoine Miquel University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Introduction
Note
References
2 Bergson and the Rise of the ‘Sciences of Memory’ Takeshi Miyake University of Kagawa
1 Introduction
2 Experimental psychology and Matter and Memory
3 The localization of memories and Matter and Memory
4 The psychodynamics of Ribot and Matter and Memory
5 Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Bergson’s Dualism Today Joël Dolbeault
1 Bergson’s position on mind
2 General arguments in favour of interactionist dualism
3 General arguments against interactionist dualism, and replies
4 Libet’s experiment
5 Dualism and memory
Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Memory and History: Rereading Bergson through Ricoeur Masato Goda Meiji University
References
5 ‘A Long-accepted Foreigner, To Whom One Grants Refuge for a While’: On Riquier’s Interpretation of Bergson’s Kantianism Hisashi Fujita Kyushu Sangyo University
1 Bergson and Kant (always and again)
2 Aufhebung of the Critique of Pure Reason
3 Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Part Two Perception and Embodiment
6 Bergson, Gibson and the Image o fthe External World Stephen E. Robbins
The hard problem is the image
Bergson’s model of the origin of the image
Gibson – the information for modulation
Bergson – the alternative to the computer model of mind
Time in Bergson’s model – the temporal metaphysic
Time scales and invariance laws
Subject, object and time – Bergson’s unique panpsychism
References
7 Bergson and Ecological Psychology: Memory of the Body and of the Universe Tetsuya Kono Rikkyo University
1 Introduction
2 Bergsonian theory of perception and J.J. Gibson
3 Two types of memories of Bergson
4 Depth perception for Gibson
5 The ontological status of memory in the universe
6 Concluding remarks
References
8 Defining Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology: Bergson and Bruner Sébastien Miravète
Bruner’s cognitive theory of perception and the definition of cognitive psychology
Bergsonian theory of perception and the definition of philosophy
Notes
References
9 What is the ‘Thickness’ of the Present? Bergson’s Dual Perception System and the Ontology of Time Yasushi Hirai Keio University
1 Dual visual system hypothesis in contemporary cognitive science
2 Bergson’s dual perception theory
3 Direct perception theory: avoiding ontological detachment between things and perceptions
4. ‘Extended Mind’ not only in space, but also in time
5. The existence of a virtual past
Notes
References
10 Affordance and Bergson Tatsuya Higaki University of Osaka
Reference
Part Three Time and Duration
11 Neutral Monism, Temporal Experience and Time: Analytic Perspectives on Bergson Barry Dainton University of Liverpool
Early (and recent) analytic philosophy: Bergson’s unacknowledged role
Durée (partially) demystified
Time and temporal experience
Notes
References
12 What Arranges Memories in a Line? Takahiro Isashiki Nihon University
1 Three characteristics of Bergson’s theory of the past
2. The concept of ‘date’ and Bergson’s theory of the present
3. Bergson’s explanation of ‘date’
4. What kind of entity are events?
5 Semi-realism about the past
Conclusion
Notes
References
13 Coexistence and the Flow of Time Elie During University Paris Nanterre
‘Time’ and ‘duration’
The form of time: a Kantian interlude
Beyond presentism and eternalism
Laplace’s ghost
In what sense does the past ‘exist’?
What is it that passes?
The cinematographic illusion reconsidered
Simultaneities: another look at the twin paradox
Coexistence and contemporaneity
The importance of perspective and relational time
Conclusion
Notes
References
14 Connection and Disconnection of Perception and Memory: Déjà vu, Bayesian and Inverse Bayesian Inference Yukio-Pegio Gunji Waseda University
1 Introduction
2 Bergson, Gibson and passive consciousness
3 Déjà vu, pure recollection and pure perception
4 Bayesian and inverse Bayesian inference
5 Conclusion
References
15 The Extensionalist View and Bergson’s Notion of Contraction Ryusuke Okajima Niigata University
Introduction1
1 Premises of the notion of contraction
2 Functions of contraction: synthesis, condensation, reduction
3 Interpretation of the notion of contraction: Extensional contraction models
4 Conclusion
Notes
References
16 We Bergsonians: The Kyoto Manifesto Elie During and Paul-Antoine Miguel
‘We Bergsonians . . .’
Expanded Bergsonism
A non-speculative empiricism: following ‘lines of facts’
Ontological commitment and critical distance: the connection with the sciences
Neither reductionism nor emergentism
The virtual and the possible
A broader logic
Presentism and eternalism
Re-examining the relation between duration and space
The problem of co-existence: the local and the global
Between confabulation and creation: living and thinking with science
Envoi
Notes
References
Index