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This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy. Focusing specifically on the application of Bergson's ideas to cognitive science, the circuit between perception and memory receives full explication in 15 different essays. By re-reading Bergson through a cognitive lens, the essays provide a series of alternative analytic interpretations to the standard continental approach to Bergson's oeuvre, without fully discounting either approach. The relevance of philosophies of mind and memory sit alongside the role of a metaphysics of time in exploring connections to psychology, biology, and physics. This eclecticism includes an exciting focus on numerous topics that are not given sufficient attention in extant studies of Bergson, including the precise nature of his ideas on dualism, memory, and ecological theories of perception, especially in relation to his contemporaries. Led by leading Bergson scholars from France and Japan, this book maps the rich terrain of Bergson's contemporary relevance alongside the historical context of his ideas.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One Memory and Mind
- 1 A Secret Connection Between the Dualities Actual/Virtual, and Intelligence/Intuition in Bergson’s Metaphysics
- 2 Bergson and the Rise of ‘the Sciences of Memory’
- 3 Bergson’s Dualism Today
- 4 Memory and History: Rereading Bergson from Ricoeur
- 5 ‘A Long-accepted Foreigner, To Whom One Grants Refuge for a While’: On Riquier’s Interpretation of Bergson’s Kantianism
- Part Two Perception and Embodiment
- 6 Bergson, Gibson and the Image of the External World
- 7 Bergson and Ecological Psychology: Memory of the Body and of the Universe
- 8 Defining Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology: Bergson and Bruner
- 9 What is the ‘Thickness’ of The Present? Bergson’s Dual Perception System and the Ontology of Time
- 10 Affordance and Bergson
- Part Three Time and Duration
- 11 Neutral Monism, Temporal Experience and Time: Analytic Perspectives on Bergson
- 12 What Arranges Memories in a Line?
- 13 Coexistence and the Flow of Time
- 14 Connection and Disconnection of Perception and Memory: Déjà vu, Bayesian and Inverse Bayesian Inference
- 15 The Extensionalist View and Bergson’s Notion of Contraction
- 16 We Bergsonians: The Kyoto Manifesto
- Index
- Copyright