Time as Form: Lessons from the Bergson-Einstein Dispute

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface: The Times Are Many V
3. Introduction XIII
4. Table of Contents XXIII
5. Part One: Some Preliminary Questions
6. Who Is Entitled to Talk about Time? Philosophers or Physicists? 1
7. Einstein vs. Bergson, Scientism vs. Humanism 15
8. Is Time Unreal? 35
9. Part Two: Bergsonian Issues
10. The Eternal Quarrel on Time 55
11. Some Contemporary Reflections on Bergson’s Time and Free Will 65
12. Duration and Becoming in Bergson’s Metaphysics 83
13. Time as Form: Lessons from the Bergson-Einstein Dispute 99
14. Peter and Paul: a Ghost Story? 135
15. The Test of Time: Human and Cosmic Time 165
16. Part Three: The Nature of Time, the Time of Nature
17. The Time of Physics 187
18. One Time, Two Times, or No Time? 209
19. The Ontological Roots of Temporality 231
20. On the Notion of Processuality in Whitehead: Concrescence and Transition Correlated 251
21. Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy: Whiteheadian Reflections on Bergson, Einstein, and Rovelli 273
22. Part Four: Metaphysics, Logic, Neuroscience, Biology and Cosmology of Time
23. No Time for (No) Change 301
24. Between the Time of Physics and the Time of Metaphysics, the Time of Tense Logic? 331
25. Reinterpreting the Einstein-Bergson Debate through Contemporary Neuroscience 349
26. Today’s ecological relevance of Bergson-Einstein debate on time 375
27. The Age of the Universe 407
28. List of Contributors 433
29. Index 437