Bergson’s Scientific Metaphysics: Matter and Memory Today

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nFigures\nTables\nNotes on Contributors\nAcknowledgements\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction Yasushi Hirai Keio University\n	The challenge of Matter and Memory\n	High-dimensional science metaphysical puzzles\n	Consciousness and time in the sciences since the 1980s\n	Mind and time in analytic metaphysics\n	The science of metaphysics\n	Towards a theoretical application of Bergsonian philosophy\n	Notes\n	References\nPart One Memory and Mind\n1 A Secret Connection Between the Dualities Actual/Virtual, and Intelligence/Intuition in Bergson’s Metaphysics Paul-Antoine Miquel University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès\n	Introduction\n	Note\n	References\n2 Bergson and the Rise of the ‘Sciences of Memory’ Takeshi Miyake University of Kagawa\n	1 Introduction\n	2 Experimental psychology and Matter and Memory\n	3 The localization of memories and Matter and Memory\n	4 The psychodynamics of Ribot and Matter and Memory\n	5 Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n3 Bergson’s Dualism Today Joël Dolbeault\n	1 Bergson’s position on mind\n	2 General arguments in favour of interactionist dualism\n	3 General arguments against interactionist dualism, and replies\n	4 Libet’s experiment\n	5 Dualism and memory\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n4 Memory and History: Rereading Bergson through Ricoeur Masato Goda Meiji University\n	References\n5 ‘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\n	1 Bergson and Kant (always and again)\n	2 Aufhebung of the Critique of Pure Reason\n	3 Concluding remarks\n	Notes\n	References\nPart Two Perception and Embodiment\n6 Bergson, Gibson and the Image o fthe External World Stephen E. Robbins\n	The hard problem is the image\n	Bergson’s model of the origin of the image\n	Gibson – the information for modulation\n	Bergson – the alternative to the computer model of mind\n	Time in Bergson’s model – the temporal metaphysic\n	Time scales and invariance laws\n	Subject, object and time – Bergson’s unique panpsychism\n	References\n7 Bergson and Ecological Psychology: Memory of the Body and of the Universe Tetsuya Kono Rikkyo University\n	1 Introduction\n	2 Bergsonian theory of perception and J.J. Gibson\n	3 Two types of memories of Bergson\n	4 Depth perception for Gibson\n	5 The ontological status of memory in the universe\n	6 Concluding remarks\n	References\n8 Defining Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology: Bergson and Bruner Sébastien Miravète\n	Bruner’s cognitive theory of perception and the definition of cognitive psychology\n	Bergsonian theory of perception and the definition of philosophy\n	Notes\n	References\n9 What is the ‘Thickness’ of the Present? Bergson’s Dual Perception System and the Ontology of Time Yasushi Hirai Keio University\n	1 Dual visual system hypothesis in contemporary cognitive science\n	2 Bergson’s dual perception theory\n	3 Direct perception theory: avoiding ontological detachment between things and perceptions\n	4. ‘Extended Mind’ not only in space, but also in time\n	5. The existence of a virtual past\n	Notes\n	References\n10 Affordance and Bergson Tatsuya Higaki University of Osaka\n	Reference\nPart Three Time and Duration\n11 Neutral Monism, Temporal Experience and Time: Analytic Perspectives on Bergson Barry Dainton University of Liverpool\n	Early (and recent) analytic philosophy: Bergson’s unacknowledged role\n	Durée (partially) demystified\n	Time and temporal experience\n	Notes\n	References\n12 What Arranges Memories in a Line? Takahiro Isashiki Nihon University\n	1 Three characteristics of Bergson’s theory of the past\n	2. The concept of ‘date’ and Bergson’s theory of the present\n	3. Bergson’s explanation of ‘date’\n	4. What kind of entity are events?\n	5 Semi-realism about the past\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n13 Coexistence and the Flow of Time Elie During University Paris Nanterre\n	‘Time’ and ‘duration’\n	The form of time: a Kantian interlude\n	Beyond presentism and eternalism\n	Laplace’s ghost\n	In what sense does the past ‘exist’?\n	What is it that passes?\n	The cinematographic illusion reconsidered\n	Simultaneities: another look at the twin paradox\n	Coexistence and contemporaneity\n	The importance of perspective and relational time\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n14 Connection and Disconnection of Perception and Memory: Déjà vu, Bayesian and Inverse Bayesian Inference Yukio-Pegio Gunji Waseda University\n	1 Introduction\n	2 Bergson, Gibson and passive consciousness\n	3 Déjà vu, pure recollection and pure perception\n	4 Bayesian and inverse Bayesian inference\n	5 Conclusion\n	References\n15 The Extensionalist View and Bergson’s Notion of Contraction Ryusuke Okajima Niigata University\n	Introduction1\n	1 Premises of the notion of contraction\n	2 Functions of contraction: synthesis, condensation, reduction\n	3 Interpretation of the notion of contraction: Extensional contraction models\n	4 Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n16 We Bergsonians: The Kyoto Manifesto Elie During and Paul-Antoine Miguel\n	‘We Bergsonians . . .’\n	Expanded Bergsonism\n	A non-speculative empiricism: following ‘lines of facts’\n	Ontological commitment and critical distance: the connection with the sciences\n	Neither reductionism nor emergentism\n	The virtual and the possible\n	A broader logic\n	Presentism and eternalism\n	Re-examining the relation between duration and space\n	The problem of co-existence: the local and the global\n	Between confabulation and creation: living and thinking with science\n	Envoi\n	Notes\n	References\nIndex