Bergson's Philosophy of Biology

Virtuality, Tendency and Time

AvTano S. Posteraro

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Why read Bergson now? And why as a philosopher of biology in particular? On the one hand, we are in the midst of a return to Bergson, a revival of interest in his work, and even 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. Moreover, he presents an alternative Bergson, not as a phenomenologist whose central datum is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but rather as a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme. The result is a Bergson for the biology of today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474488808

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Tano Posteraro is SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University. He is co-editor, with Michael Bennett, of Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and author of a number of articles and chapters on biological themes in Bergson, Whitehead, Ruyer and Deleuze.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Between Philosophy and Biology1. Vitalism, Psychology, and Metaphysics2. Outline and Overview1. The Actual: Mechanism, Finalism, ModalityIntroduction1.1. Mechanisma. Adaptationismb. Developmental Constraint1.2. Finalisma. Inner Purposivenessb. The Metaphysics of Possibilityi. The Falsity of the Problemii. The Retrospective Illusion1.3. Geneticsa. Developmentb. EvolutionConclusion2. The Virtual: Instantiation, Implication, DynamicsIntroduction2.1. Instantiationa. Imagesb. Possibilitiesc. Affordances2.2. Implicationa. Contractionb. Themesc. Memory2.3. Dynamicsa. Inventionb. Affordancesc. PerformancesConclusion3. A Discourse on TendencyIntroduction3.1. Intellectual Effort and Élan Vital3.2. The Development of an Idea3.3. The Theory of Tendency3.4. The Modal-Mereological Difference3.5. Virtuality and the Dispositional ModalityConclusion4. Individuality and OrganizationIntroduction4.1. Spatializationa. Isolationb. Externalizationc. Localization4.2. Temporalizationa. Individuationb. Interpenetrationc. DurationConclusion5. Finalism InvertedIntroduction5.1. Rhythm and Reproduction5.2. Weismann Redux5.3. Orthogenesis5.4. Vitalism in Disputea. Entelechyb. Individuality5.5. True Finalisma. Externalityb. Commonalityc. PsychologyConclusion6. Canalization and ConvergenceIntroduction6.1. Canalizationa. Images for Developmentb. Vision and its Apparatusc. The Inside of Indetermination6.2. Convergencea. Definitionsb. Unity and Complementarityc. Recollection and Returnd. Conservation and ConstraintConclusionConcluding Remarks and Future DirectionsBibliography