Bergson Complexity And Creative Emergence

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Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence

Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137412208
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence written by David Kreps and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology.

Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence

Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137412208
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence written by David Kreps and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology.

Actology

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725266768
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Actology written by Malcolm Torry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two streams run through the Western philosophical stream: one characterized by Being, beings, the unchanging, the static, and the unitary; and the other by Action, actions, the changing, the dynamic, and the diverse. The former might be represented by Parmenides, Plato, and much of what followed; the latter by Heraclitus, and by rather less of what followed. The book explores the "Action" stream as it wound its way through history, through Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Maurice Blondel, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, process philosophy and theology, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and John Boys Smith. The journey enables us to create the beginnings of an "actology": a way of seeing ourselves, the universe, and God in terms of actions in patterns rather than as beings that change. Such an actology offers a complete alternative narrative far more in tune with the diverse and rapidly changing world in which we live than the ontology that has shaped philosophy, theology, and much else for the past two thousand years.

Debussy, Bergson and the Music of 'la duree'

Author : Charles Frantz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040132936
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Debussy, Bergson and the Music of 'la duree' by : Charles Frantz

Download or read book Debussy, Bergson and the Music of 'la duree' written by Charles Frantz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy’s music through the lens of Bergson’s philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his "revolution" in musical time. In fin-de-siècle Paris, Debussy was revolutionizing musical time while Bergson was establishing a metaphysics that challenged the notion of measured or spatialized time. Bergson argued that real time or durée could be grasped only through intuition as opposed to analysis. Debussy eschewed analysis of music, declaring that separating it into parts was better left to engineers. Debussy’s music and Bergson’s durée were conceived and imagined in the environs of nature. The cycle of seasons, the gracefulness of a blooming flower, or a gentle breeze all suggest continuity, flow, and uninterrupted rhythm. The time of nature is the time of Debussy’s music and Bergson’s durée. Debussy’s use of open forms and Golden Sections create a time world of an expanded present, never ceasing. Bergson’s perception of real time is ever-changing, bringing the past into the present and open to unforeseen novelty. This book is intended primarily for scholars in the disciplines of musicology, music theory, and philosophy and can be used as a text for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in musicology or music theory.

Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics

Author : Yasushi Hirai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350341983
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics written by Yasushi Hirai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy. Focusing specifically on the application of Bergson's ideas to cognitive science, the circuit between perception and memory receives full explication in 15 different essays. By re-reading Bergson through a cognitive lens, the essays provide a series of alternative analytic interpretations to the standard continental approach to Bergson's oeuvre, without fully discounting either approach. The relevance of philosophies of mind and memory sit alongside the role of a metaphysics of time in exploring connections to psychology, biology, and physics. This eclecticism includes an exciting focus on numerous topics that are not given sufficient attention in extant studies of Bergson, including the precise nature of his ideas on dualism, memory, and ecological theories of perception, especially in relation to his contemporaries. Led by leading Bergson scholars from France and Japan, this book maps the rich terrain of Bergson's contemporary relevance alongside the historical context of his ideas.

Updating Bergson

Author : Adam Lovasz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793640823
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Updating Bergson written by Adam Lovasz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, there has been a renewal of scholarly interest in the work of Henri Bergson (1859–1941). At once a commentary and a stark re-evaluation of Bergson’s philosophy, Updating Bergson: A Philosophy of the Enduring Present argues that time should be thought of as a hierarchy of simultaneous durations, the shifting reality of which can be revealed by the philosophical method of intuition. A duration is a perpetually dynamic flow situated in the now. Put simply, for Bergson, change is the substance of things. Nothing exists apart from alteration. Adam Lovasz analyzes Bergson’s philosophy of time, encompassing the three basic types of duration—material, organic, and subjective—and also touches on themes such as relativity, evolution, the problem of materialism and idealism, and the topic of free will. Lovasz connects key questions addressed by Bergson to contemporary scientific debates and paradigms. Shedding new light on the various aspects of Bergson's philosophy, this book is both a provocation and an invitation to think in terms of the enduring present, rather than committing ourselves to a dead past or an absent future.

Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy

Author : Andreas Vrahimis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303080755X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy by : Andreas Vrahimis

Download or read book Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy written by Andreas Vrahimis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson became an international celebrity, profoundly influencing contemporary intellectual and artistic currents. While Bergsonism was fashionable, L. Susan Stebbing, Bertrand Russell, Moritz Schlick, and Rudolf Carnap launched different critical attacks against some of Bergson’s views. This book examines this series of critical responses to Bergsonism early in the history of analytic philosophy. Analytic criticisms of Bergsonism were influenced by William James, who saw Bergson as an ‘anti-intellectualist’ ally of American Pragmatism, and Max Scheler, who saw him as a prophet of Lebensphilosophie. Some of the main analytic objections to Bergson are answered in the work of Karin Costelloe-Stephen. Analytic anti-Bergsonism accompanied the earlier refutations of idealism by Russell and Moore, and later influenced the Vienna Circle’s critique of metaphysics. It eventually contributed to the formation of the view that ‘analytic’ philosophy is divided from its ‘continental’ counterpart.

Deleuze's Bergsonism

Author : Craig Lundy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441432X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Deleuze's Bergsonism written by Craig Lundy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland's history

Against Nature

Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351233807
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Against Nature written by David Kreps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems.

Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology

Author : Giuseppe Bianco
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031205294
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology written by Giuseppe Bianco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned. In doing so, it contributes to debates in the history and philosophy of science and the history of philosophy of science, as well as to the craving for ‘history’ and/or ‘theory’ in the theoretical biological disciplines. In addition, however, it also provides inspiration for a broader image of philosophy of biology, in which these traditional issues may have a place. The volume devotes specific attention to the work of Georges Canguilhem, which is central to this alternative tradition of “continental philosophy of biology”. This is the first collection on Georges Canguilhem and the Continental tradition in philosophy of biology. The book should be of interest to philosophers of biology, continental philosophers, historians of biology and those interested in broader traditions in philosophy of science.

Invited Lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education

Author : Gabriele Kaiser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319721704
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Invited Lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education written by Gabriele Kaiser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the Invited Lectures given at 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). ICME-13 took place from 24th- 31st July 2016 at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg (Germany). The congress was hosted by the Society of Didactics of Mathematics (Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik - GDM) and took place under the auspices of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). ICME-13 – the biggest ICME so far - brought together about 3500 mathematics educators from 105 countries, additionally 250 teachers from German speaking countries met for specific activities. The scholars came together to share their work on the improvement of mathematics education at all educational levels.. The papers present the work of prominent mathematics educators from all over the globe and give insight into the current discussion in mathematics education. The Invited Lectures cover a wide spectrum of topics, themes and issues and aim to give direction to future research towards educational improvement in the teaching and learning of mathematics education. This book is of particular interest to researchers, teachers and curriculum developers in mathematics education.

Play, Philosophy and Performance

Author : Malcolm MacLean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000345858
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Play, Philosophy and Performance written by Malcolm MacLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play. It showcases the most innovative, interdisciplinary work in the rapidly developing field of Play Studies. How we play, and the relation of play to the human condition, is becoming increasingly recognised as a field of scholarly inquiry as well as a significant element of social practice, public policy and socio-cultural understanding. Drawing on approaches ranging through morality and ethics, language and the nature of reality, aesthetics, digital culture and gaming, and written by an international group of emerging and established scholars, this book examines how our performance at play describes, shapes and influences our performance as human beings. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in leisure, education, childhood, gaming, the arts, playwork or many branches of philosophical enquiry.

Understanding Digital Events

Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429627025
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Events written by David Kreps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are temporally defined by a term or period, in which all physical-chemical processes and personal subjective experience are included. Bringing together insights from a range of different specialisms, it urges us to consider a science of nature that includes both physical and non-physical realities and, from this ontological position, draws on philosophy, media, and user experience practice to provide a new account of the technological or virtual world of today. An examination of the manner in which process philosophy may be applied to contemporary digital experience, this volume will appeal to scholars of philosophy, science and technology studies and information systems.

Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

Author : Christopher Donohue
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031126041
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy written by Christopher Donohue and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance of vitalism and other non-mechanistic conceptions of life. It points towards the integration of genomic science into the broader history of biology. It details a broad engagement with a variety of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century vitalisms and conceptions of life. In addition, it discusses important threads in the history of concepts in the United States and Europe, including charting new reception histories in eastern and south-eastern Europe. While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally.

Time, Life & Memory

Author : Laurens Landeweerd
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030568539
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Time, Life & Memory written by Laurens Landeweerd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in 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. It does so on the basis of the three interrelated topics of time, life and memory. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most widely read philosophers of his era. The European public was seeking for answers to questions of the soul and the nature of life and fitting within a historical niche between intellectual rationalism and intuitive spiritualism, his writings drew much attention. This work focuses on the relevance of his philosophy for developments in exact sciences today. The discussion of physics in relation to the abstract and the concrete, the life sciences in relation to concepts of life in relation to new and emerging biotechnology, and the neurosciences in relation to the dual nature of human identity, focuses on one main topic: time. Time, isolated from experience, as the measure of the events in the universe in modern physics; time as the measure of emergent systems in evolution as the backdrop of the theory of evolution in biology; time in relation to memory and imagination in neuropsychological accounts of memory. The author thus discusses the ideas of Henri Bergson as a basis to unveil time as a living process, rather than as an instrument for the measure of events. This view forms the basis of a novel approach to the philosophy of technology. An exciting book for academics interested in the interplay between hard sciences and philosophy.

Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666798576
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy written by Malcolm Torry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy is what it says it is. The book asks how we might understand the writings of a number of continental philosophers actologically: that is, with reality understood as action in changing patterns rather than as beings that change. It also asks how the different continental philosophies might enable us to develop an actology: an understanding of reality as action in changing patterns. The philosophers whom we study are Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Gilles Deleuze, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault, and Michel Serres. A whole new way of understanding reality casts new light on their philosophies and raises and answers some significant new questions.

Advancing Information Systems Theories

Author : Nik Rushdi Hassan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030648842
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Advancing Information Systems Theories written by Nik Rushdi Hassan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information systems (IS) field represents a multidisciplinary area that links the rapidly changing technology of information (or communications and information technology, ICT) to the business and social environment. Despite the potential that the IS field has to develop its own native theories to address current issues involving ICT it has consistently borrowed theories from its “reference disciplines,” often uncritically, to legitimize its research. This volume is the first of a series intended to advance IS research beyond this form of borrowed legitimization and derivative research towards fresh and original research that naturally comes from its own theories. It is inconceivable for a field so relevant to the era of the hyper-connected society, disruptive technologies, big data, social media, "fake news" and the weaponization of information to not be brimming with its own theories. The first step in reaching the goal of developing native IS theories is to reach an agreement on the need for theory (its rationale) and its role as the most distinctive product of human intellectual activity. This volume addresses what theories are, why bother with theories and the process of theorizing itself because the process of developing theories cannot be divorced from the product of that process. It will lay out a research agenda for decades to come and will be invaluable reading for any academic in the IS field and related disciplines concerned with information, systems, technology and their management.