Time, Life & Memory: Bergson and Contemporary Science 3030568520, 9783030568528
This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences
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English Pages 195 [207] Year 2021
Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Literature
Chapter 2: An Attempt to an Applied Metaphysics
2.1 Three Notions for an Applied Metaphysics
2.1.1 Immediate Concreteness
2.1.2 Vital Impulse
2.1.3 Duration
Literature
Chapter 3: Time and Life: Bergson and Physics
3.1 The Conceptual Disarray Between Space and Time
3.2 Tinkering with Time: The Debacle with Einstein
3.3 Bohr, de Broglie and the Unfreezing of Time
Literature
Chapter 4: Life and Time: Bergson and the Life Sciences
4.1 Mechanistic Thought and Evolution
4.2 The Vitalist Thesis
4.3 The Alchemy of Life
Literature
Chapter 5: Time, Life and Memory: Bergson and Neuroscience
5.1 The Mechanistic Mind
5.2 Memory and Imagination
5.3 Unlocking the Chamber of Consciousness
Literature
Chapter 6: Interlude: From Epistemic Debate to an Ethics of Technology
Literature
Chapter 7: To Become Gods, or to Perish in the Process…
7.1 Imagining the Anthropocene
7.2 The Autopoietic Nature of Technological Systems
7.3 The Titanomachy Continued: From a Closed to an Open Morality
Literature
Chapter 8: Conclusion and Notes on Various Themes
8.1 Thinking Fluidity
8.2 On Dualism
8.3 Upgrading the Human
8.4 Internationalism and the Exchange of Worldviews
8.5 Innovation and the Market
8.6 Brief Postscriptum
Literature
Acknowledgements
Afterword
Conventions Pertaining References, Language and Terminology
Glossary
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Literature
Chapter 2: An Attempt to an Applied Metaphysics
2.1 Three Notions for an Applied Metaphysics
2.1.1 Immediate Concreteness
2.1.2 Vital Impulse
2.1.3 Duration
Literature
Chapter 3: Time and Life: Bergson and Physics
3.1 The Conceptual Disarray Between Space and Time
3.2 Tinkering with Time: The Debacle with Einstein
3.3 Bohr, de Broglie and the Unfreezing of Time
Literature
Chapter 4: Life and Time: Bergson and the Life Sciences
4.1 Mechanistic Thought and Evolution
4.2 The Vitalist Thesis
4.3 The Alchemy of Life
Literature
Chapter 5: Time, Life and Memory: Bergson and Neuroscience
5.1 The Mechanistic Mind
5.2 Memory and Imagination
5.3 Unlocking the Chamber of Consciousness
Literature
Chapter 6: Interlude: From Epistemic Debate to an Ethics of Technology
Literature
Chapter 7: To Become Gods, or to Perish in the Process…
7.1 Imagining the Anthropocene
7.2 The Autopoietic Nature of Technological Systems
7.3 The Titanomachy Continued: From a Closed to an Open Morality
Literature
Chapter 8: Conclusion and Notes on Various Themes
8.1 Thinking Fluidity
8.2 On Dualism
8.3 Upgrading the Human
8.4 Internationalism and the Exchange of Worldviews
8.5 Innovation and the Market
8.6 Brief Postscriptum
Literature
Acknowledgements
Afterword
Conventions Pertaining References, Language and Terminology
Glossary
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