Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics

Yasushi Hirai is Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Japan.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction, Yasushi Hirai (Fukuoka University, Japan)

Part 1. Memory and Mind
1. A Secret Connection Between the Dualities Actual/Virtual, and Intelligence/Intuition in Bergson's Metaphysics, Paul-Antoine Miquel (Toulouse 2 University, France)
2. Bergson and the Rise of ‘the Sciences of Memory’, Takeshi Miyake (Kagawa University, Japan)
3. Bergson's Dualism Today, Joël Dolbeault (no affiliation)
4. Memory and History. Rereading Bergson from Ricoeur, Masato Goda (Meiji University, Japan)
5. “A Long-Accepted Foreigner, To Whom One Grants Refuge For a While”: On Riquier’s Interpretation of Bergson’s Kantianism, Hisashi Fujita (Kyushu Sangkyo University, Japan)

Part 2. Perception and Embodiment
6. Bergson, Gibson and the Image of the External World, Stephen E. Robbins (no affiliation)
7. Bergson and Ecological Psychology: Memory of the Body and of the Universe, Tetsuya Kono (Rikkyo University, Japan)
8. Defining Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology: Bergson and Bruner, Sébastien Miravète (Toulouse 2 University, France)
9. What Is The ‘Thickness’ Of The Present? Bergson’s Dual Perception System and The Ontology of Time, Yasushi Hirai (Fukuoka University, Japan)
10. Affordance and Bergson, Tatsuya Higaki (Osaka University, Japan)

Part 3. Time and Duration
11. Neutral Monism, Temporal Experience and Time: Analytic Perspectives on Bergson, Barry Dainton (Liverpool University, UK)
12. What Arranges Memories In a Line? Takahiro Isashiki (Nihon University, Japan)
13. Coexistence and the Flow of Time, Elie During (University Paris Nanterre, France)
14. Connection and Disconnection of Perception and Memory: Déjà vu, Bayesian and Inverse Bayesian Inference, Pegio-Yukio Gunji (Waseda University, Japan)
15. The Extensionalist View and Bergson’s Notion of Contraction, Ryusuke, Okajima (Keio University, Japan)
16. We Bergsonians: The Kyoto Manifesto, Elie During and Paul-Antoine Miquel (University Paris Nanterre and University of Toulouse, France)
Index