Bergson and Modern Physics

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 The Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge
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   Chapter 2 The Intermediate Stage: Helmholtz, Mach and Poincaré
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   Chapter 3 Bergson’s Amendment of the Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge
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   Chapter 4 Why Mechanical-Pictorial Models Failed
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   Chapter 5 The Contrast Between Technical Control and Intellectual Insight: The Persistent Influence of Macroscopic Imagery
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   Chapter 6 Limitations of Panmathematism
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   Chapter 7 Negative Aspects of Bergson’s Epistemology — Its Relations to Bachelard, Bridgman and Empirio-Criticism
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   Chapter 8 Bergson, Reichenbach and Piaget
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    Chapter 9 The Logic of Solid Bodies from Plato to Quine
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    Chapter 10 The Meaning of Immediacy
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    Chapter 11 Content of the Bergsonian Intuition
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    Chapter 12 The Dynamic Continuity of Duration
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    Chapter 13 The Incompleteness of Duration: Novelty and Its Denials
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    Chapter 14 Superfluity of Succession in the Deterministic Schemes
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    Chapter 15 The Leibniz-Fouillé Argument for the Compatibility of Succession and Determinism
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    Chapter 16 The Heterogeneity of Duration: Lovejoy-Ushenko’s Objections
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    Chapter 17 The Deeper Meaning of the ‘Indivisible Heterogeneity’ Of Duration
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    Chapter 18 The Unreality of Durationless Instants: Becoming not Mathematically Continuous
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    Chapter 19 The Inadequacy of the Atomistic Theory of Time
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    Chapter 20 The Unity and Multiplicity of Duration: Bergson, Russell and Brouwer
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    Chapter 21 Immortality of the Past: Bergson and Whitehead
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    Chapter 22 James’s and Bergson’s Views of the Past Compared
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    Chapter 23 The Irreversibility of Duration: The Comments of Royce and Ingarden
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    Chapter 24 Duration as Concrete Universal. Bergson and Croce
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    Chapter 25 An Outline of Bergson’s Philosophy of Mathematics
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    Chapter 26 The Reality of Duration in the Physical World and its Implications
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    Chapter 27 Different Degrees of Temporal Span. Microcosmos as Microchronos
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    Chapter 28 Two Fundamental Questions
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    Chapter 29 The Rejection of the Cartesian Dogma of the Completely Extensionless Mind
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    Chapter 30 The Correlation of Different Temporal Rhythms with Different Degrees of Extension
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    Chapter 31 Juxtaposition as the Ideal Limit of Distended Duration
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    Chapter 32 The Negation of Instantaneous Space in the Relativistic Physics
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    Chapter 33 Bergson and Einstein. The Physical World as Extensive Becoming
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    Chapter 34 Limitations and Usefulness of the Corpuscular Models
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    Chapter 35 Change without Vehicle and Container. Fallacy of Simple Location
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    Chapter 36 Limits of the Criticism of Simple Location: Contemporary Independence
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    Chapter 37 The Indeterminacy of Microphysical Events Bergson and Boutroux
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    Chapter 38 Bergson and Louis De Broglie
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    Chapter 39 Physical Events as Proto-Mental Entities. Bergson, Whitehead and Bohm
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    Chapter 40 The Significance and the Limitations of Auditory Models. Bergson and Strawson
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    Chapter 41 Concluding Remarks: The World of Laplace and the World of Bergson