Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy
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| Summary: | XIX, 395 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | History of Analytic Philosophy,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80755-9 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- Bibliography
- 2 Prelude: Bergsonism and Anglophone Analytic Philosophy
- 2.1 Before Stardom
- 2.2 Bergsonism in Britain and America
- 2.3 Stebbing’s Response to Bergson’s 1911 Lectures
- 2.4 Russell Meets Bergson
- 2.5 Costelloe-Stephen’s Response to Russell
- Bibliography
- 3 Henri Bergson: A Misunderstood Celebrity
- 3.1 Bergson’s Historical Background
- Spiritualism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century French Philosophy
- ‘Spiritualist Positivism’
- 3.2 A Biological Epistemology of Perception
- 3.3 Memory and Recognition
- 3.4 Intellect and Intuition
- 3.5 Philosophy of Space and Time
- Beyond Spencer’s Evolutionary Epistemology
- Number, Quantity, and Space
- Durée
- 3.6 Science and Metaphysics
- 3.7 Language
- Bibliography
- 4 William James and the Anglophone Reception of Bergsonism
- 4.1 A Philosophical Friendship
- 4.2 The Portrait of a Maître
- 4.3 Intellectualism
- 4.4 Bergson’s Radical Empiricism?
- 4.5 Radical Empiricism Versus Absolute Idealism
- 4.6 James’s Influence on Bergson’s Analytic Critics
- Bibliography
- 5 ‘Ants, bees, and Bergson’: Bertrand Russell’s Polemic
- 5.1 Contra Anti-intellectualism
- 5.2 Number and Space
- 5.3 Zeno’s Paradoxes
- Zeno’s and Bergson’s Solutions
- Russell’s Mathematical Solution
- Russell’s Objection to Bergson’s Solution, and the Debate with Carr
- 5.4 Time and Memory
- 5.5 Perception and the Subject-Object Distinction
- 5.6 Russell’s Later Responses to Bergson
- ‘Jupiter sometimes nods’
- ‘Evolutionism’ and Scientific Philosophy
- Bergson’s Place in the History of Philosophy
- Bibliography
- 6 ‘Analytic’ and ‘Synthetic’ Philosophy: Karin Costelloe-Stephen’s Defences of Bergson
- 6.1 Mereology
- 6.2 Recognition, Acquaintance, and the Limits of Thought
- 6.3 Costelloe-Stephen’s Reply to Russell
- Space
- Mathematical Continua and Processes of Change
- 6.4 Complexes and Syntheses
- 6.5 Russell’s Response to Costelloe-Stephen
- 6.6 Analytic Versus Continental ‘Synthetic’ Philosophy
- Bibliography
- 7 A Call for Moderation: L. Susan Stebbing’s Critique of Bergson
- 7.1 How to Avoid Russell’s Errors
- 7.2 Bergson’s Historical Context
- 7.3 Bergson Versus the Pragmatists on Truth
- 7.4 ‘Anti-intellectualism’
- 7.5 Intuition and Argumentation
- 7.6 Stebbing’s Objections to Bergson’s Epistemology and Theory of Truth
- 7.7 Costelloe-Stephen’s Answer to Stebbing’s Objection
- Bibliography
- 8 Entr’acte: Bergson’s Germanophone Reception and the Rise of Lebensphilosophie
- 8.1 The Philosophers’ Great War
- 8.2 The Demise of Bergsonism
- 8.3 The Rise of Lebensphilosophie
- 8.4 The Vienna Circle’s Opposition to Lebensphilosophie
- 8.5 Neurath’s Russellian Critique of Spengler
- Bibliography
- 9 Evolutionary Epistemology: Moritz Schlick’s Critique of Intuition
- 9.1 Anti-biologism
- 9.2 Schlick’s Naturalised Epistemology
- 9.3 ‘Intuitive Knowledge’: A Contradiction in Terms
- 9.4 Images and Concepts
- 9.5 Judgements and Coordination
- 9.6 Philosophy’s ‘Great Error’ Revisited
- Bibliography
- 10 From the Critique of Intuition to Overcoming Metaphysics: Schlick’s Dialogue with Carnap
- 10.1 Schlick on Intuition and Metaphysics
- 10.2 Carnap on Implicit Definitions and Structure Descriptions
- 10.3 Carnap’s Critique of Bergson
- 10.4 Schlick’s Answer to Carnap
- 10.5 Schlick’s Critique of Russellian Acquaintance
- Bibliography
- 11 Different Kinds of Nothing
- 11.1 Carnap and Neurath Shift Their Target
- 11.2 Carnap on Heidegger’s Pseudo-statements
- 11.3 Carnap’s Response to Lebensphilosophie
- 11.4 Bergson and Carnap on Pseudo-problems About Nothing
- 11.5 Heidegger’s Angst Versus Bergson’s Disinterested Intuition
- 11.6 Sartre Responds to Bergson and Heidegger
- 11.7 Ayer Contra Sartre on Nothing and Negation
- Bibliography
- 12 Doing Without Masters: Oxford Philosophy and the Analytic-Continental Divide
- 12.1 Ayer Revives Russell
- 12.2 Ryle Against the 1953 UNESCO Report
- 12.3 R.M. Hare’s Proposal for the Institutional Reform of Continental Philosophy
- 12.4 Ryle Against Continental ‘Fuehrership’
- Bibliography
- 13 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.