Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy

Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy

Vrahimis, Andreas

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

07/2022

395

Dura

Inglês

9783030807542

15 a 20 dias

667

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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.- Duree.- 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 Maitre.- 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.
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Henri Bergson;Karin Costelloe-Stephen;Bertrand Russell;Susan Stebbing;Moritz Schlick