Time, Life & Memory : Bergson and Contemporary Science (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) （2. Aufl.）

Landeweerd, Laurens

Springer, Berlin; Springer（2027/01発売）

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This second and revised edition of Time, Life & Memory revitalizes the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in the exact sciences. It explores the relevance of Bergson's thought for contemporary philosophical reflections on three of the most important scientific research areas of today, namely physics, the life sciences and the neurosciences.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most widely read philosophers of his era. This work focuses on the relevance of Bergson's philosophy for developments in exact sciences today. The book discusses physics in relation to the abstract and the concrete, the life sciences in relation to concepts of life and emerging biotechnology, and the neurosciences in relation to the dual nature of human identity. This discussion focuses on three main topics: time, isolated from experience, as the measure of the events in the universe in modern physics; life, as an autopoietic and negentropic phenomenon; and memory, in relation to imagination in the neurosciences. This forms the basis for a novel approach to the philosophy of technology. This book is of interest to scholars studying the interplay between the hard sciences and philosophy.