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Bergson's philosophy of biology : virtuality, tendency and time / Tano S. Posteraro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Posteraro, Tano S., author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
- Bergson, Henri.
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- We are in the midst of a return to Henri Bergson - the French philosopher whose influence touches the fields of continental philosophy, literary theory and art theory. This revival of interest in his work could even be called a full-blown Bergson renaissance. Tano S. Posteraro contributes to this increasingly serious study of Bergson's philosophy with a tight focus on Bergson's theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not a phenomenologist whose central concern is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme.
- 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
- Instantiation
- a. Images
- b. Possibilities
- c. Affordances
- Implication
- a. Contraction
- b. Themes
- c. Memory
- Dynamics
- a. Invention
- b. Affordances
- c. Performances
- 3. A Discourse on Tendency
- Intellectual effort and élan vital
- The development of an idea
- The theory of tendency
- The modal-mereological difference
- Virtuality and the dispositional modality
- 4. Individuality and Organisation
- Spatialisation
- a. Isolation
- b. Externalisation
- c. Localisation
- Temporalisation
- a. Individuation
- b. Interpenetration
- c. Duration
- 5. Finalism Inverted
- Rhythm and reproduction
- Weismann redux
- Orthogenesis
- Vitalism in dispute
- a. Entelechy
- b. Individuality
- True finalism
- a. Externality
- b. Commonality
- c. Psychology
- 6. Canalisation and Convergence
- 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
- Concluding Remarks andFuture Directions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Oct 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Posteraro, Tano Bergson's Philosophy of Biology
- ISBN:
- 9781399518963
- 1399518968
- 9781474488822
- 147448882X
- OCLC:
- 1351747716
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