Author | ฤapek, Miliฤ. author |
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Title | Bergson and Modern Physics [electronic resource] : A Reinterpretation and Re-evaluation / by Miliฤ ฤapek |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1971 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3096-0 |
Descript | XVI, 418 p. online resource |
I. Bergsonโs Biological Theory of Knowledge -- 1. The Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge: Herbert Spencer -- 2. The Intermediate Stage: Helmholtz, Mach and Poincarรฉ -- 3. Bergsonโs Amendment of the Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Why Mechanical-Pictorial Models Failed -- 5. The Contrast Between Technical Control and Intellectual Insight: The Persistent Influence of Macroscopic Imagery -- 6. Limitations of Panmathematism -- 7. Negative aspects of Bergsonโs Epistemology โ Its Relations to Bachelard, Bridgman and Empirio-Criticism -- 8. Bergson, Reichenbach and Piaget -- 9. Logic of Solid Bodies from Plato to Quine -- II. Bergsonโs Theory of Duration -- 1. The Meaning of Immediacy -- 2. Content of the Bergsonian Intuition -- 3. The Dynamic Continuity of Duration -- 4. The Incompleteness of Duration: Novelty and its Denials -- 5. Superfluity of Succession in the Deterministic Schemes -- 6. The Leibniz-Fouillรฉ Argument for the Compatibility of Succession and Determinism -- 7. The Heterogeneity of Duration: Lovejoy-Ushenkoโs Objections -- 8. The Deeper Meaning of the โIndivisible Heterogeneityโ of Duration -- 9. The Unreality of Durationless Instants: Becoming Not MatheMatically Continuous -- 10. The Inadequacy of the Atomistic Theory of Time -- 11. The Unity and Multiplicity of Duration: Bergson, Russell and Brouwer -- 12. Immortality of the Past: Bergson and Whitehead -- 13. Jamesโs and Bergsonโs Views of the Past Compared -- 14. The Irreversibility of Duration: The Comments of Royce and Ingarden -- 15. Duration as Concrete Universal. Bergson and Croce -- 16. An Outline of Bergonโs Philosophy of Mathematics -- III. Bergsonโs Theory of the Physical World and its Relations to Contemporary Physics -- 1. The Reality of Duration in the Physical World and its Implications -- 2. Different Degrees of Temporal Span. Microcosmos as Micro-chronos -- 3. Two Fundamental Questions -- 4. The Rejection of the Cartesian Dogma of the Completely Extensionless Mind -- 5. The Correlation of Different Temporal Rhythms with Different Degrees of Extension -- 6. Juxtaposition as the Ideal Limit of Distended Duration -- 7. The Negation of Instantaneous Space in the Relativistic Physics -- 8. Bergson and Einstein. The Physical World as Extensive Becoming -- 9. Limitations and Usefulness of the Corpuscular Models -- 10. Change without Vehicle and Container. Fallacy of Simple Location -- 11. Limits of the Criticism of Simple Location: Contemporary Independence -- 12. The Indeterminacy of Microphysical Events. Bergson and Boutroux -- 13. Bergson and Louis De Broglie -- 14. Physical Events as Proto-Mental Entities. Bergson, White-head and Bohm -- 15 The Significance and the Limitations of Auditory Models. Bergson and Strawson -- 16. Concluding Remarks: the World of Laplace and the World of Bergson -- Appendix I. Russellโs Hidden Bergsonism -- Appendix II. Microphysical Indeterminacy and Free-Dom. Bergson and Peirce -- Appendix III. Bergsonโs Thoughts on Entropy and Cosmogony -- Additional Selected Bibliography -- Extract from Bergsonโs Letter -- Index of Names and Subjects