LaceyBergson-Arg Philosophers
I EXTENSITY AND INTENSITY 1 Introduction 2 The three main cases 3
Sensations 4 The issue over intensive magnitudes 5 Psychophysics 6
Conclusions II SPACE AND TIME 1 Introduction 2 Space and counting 3 Space
and extension. Kinds of multiplicity 4 Duration 5 Zeno 6 Absolute and
relative. Absolute motion 7 Absolute space 8 Absolute duration. The two
stages in Bergson's thought 9 The first stage 10 The second stage 11
Conclusions on the two stages 12 Criticism. The symmetry of space and time
13 Bergson and Einstein III FREEWILL 1 Introduction. Two forms of
determinism 2 Bergson's strategy 3 Bergson on psychological determinism 4
Nature of causality. Causal and logical necessity 5 Determinism as due to
confusion of two views of causality 6 Causal and logical necessity again 7
Libertarianism 8 Bergson's own view of free will IV THE METAPHYSICS OF
CHANGE AND SUBSTANCE 1 Introduction 2 The escape from realism and idealism
3 The role of images 4 Categories. Change and essence 5 Pure change? 6 The
substrate and its role 7 Permanence 8 Substance 9 Things and processes 10
Conclusion V PROBLEMS OF MIND AND BODY 1 Introduction 2 Perception 3 Memory
4 Perception and memory 5 Rhythms of duration 6 Perception and action 7 The
reality of the past 8 Mind and body VI EPISTEMOLOGY 1 Introduction 2
Intelligence and instinct 3 Consciousness: its two senses 4 Instinct and
intuition 5 Intelligence and intuition: preliminaries 6 Immediacy 7
Concepts and language: the problem 8 Immediacy and the role of intuition 9
Concepts and language: development of the problem 10 The nature of
philosophy 11 Conclusion: the role of mathematics VII BIOLOGY 1
Introduction 2 The nature of life 3 Philosophical arguments 4 Scientific
arguments 5 The élan vital 6 Conservation and entropy. Order and disorder
VIII THE COMIC 1 Introduction. Art and comedy 2 The basis of the theory 3
Development of the theory IX MORALITY AND MYSTICISM 1 Introduction 2
Obligation 3 The question of justification 4 Closed and open morality 5
Justice and value 6 The hero 7 Myth-making 8 Magic 9 Mysticism 10 God 11
Epilogue
