Bergson's Philosophy of Biology : Virtuality, Tendency and Time.

Bergson's Philosophy of Biology : Virtuality, Tendency and Time.

Reconstructs Bergson's philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Posteraro, Tano
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941
Biology > Philosophy.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology
  • Vitalism, psychology, and metaphysics
  • Outline and overview
  • 1. The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, Modality
  • Introduction
  • Mechanism
  • a. Adaptationism
  • b. Developmental constraint
  • Finalism
  • a. Inner purposiveness
  • b. The metaphysics of possibility
  • Genetics
  • a. Development
  • b. Evolution
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, Dynamics
  • Introduction
  • Instantiation
  • a. Images
  • b. Possibilities
  • c. Affordances
  • Implication
  • a. Contraction
  • B. Themes
  • c. Memory
  • Dynamics
  • a. Invention
  • b. Affordances
  • c. Performances
  • Conclusion
  • 3. A Discourse on Tendency
  • Introduction
  • Intellectual effort and élan vital
  • The development of an idea
  • The theory of tendency
  • The modal-mereological difference
  • Virtuality and the dispositional modality
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Individuality and Organisation
  • Introduction
  • Spatialisation
  • a. Isolation
  • b. Externalisation
  • c. Localisation
  • Temporalisation
  • a. Individuation
  • b. Interpenetration
  • c. Duration
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Finalism Inverted
  • Introduction
  • Rhythm and reproduction
  • Weismann redux
  • Orthogenesis
  • Vitalism in dispute
  • a. Entelechy
  • b. Individuality
  • True finalism
  • a. Externality
  • b. Commonality
  • c. Psychology
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Canalisation and Convergence
  • Introduction
  • Canalisation
  • a. Images for development
  • b. Vision and its apparatus
  • c. The inside of indetermination
  • Convergence
  • a. Definitions
  • b. Unity and complementarity
  • c. Recollection and return
  • d. Conservation and constraint
  • Conclusion
  • Concluding Remarks andFuture Directions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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