Add to ORKGJustin Sausman, 'It's organisms that die, not life': Henri Bergson, Psychical Research , and the Contemporary uses of Vitalism', in Sas Mays and Neil Matheson, eds., The Machine and the Ghost (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), ISBN 978-0-7190-9006-6, eISBN 978-1-5261-1210-1.This chapter traces the connections between Henri Bergson's vitalist philosophy and his interest in spiritualism and psychical research. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the continuation of these links in contemporary eco-critical theory.Peer reviewe
An important epistemological convention for scientific research is to make a strict separation betwe...
I examine a series of definitions, defences and rejections of early modern vitalism. This yields a b...
The basic element to determine Bergson’s standpoint of thought is to be found in his attempt to vind...
In Creative Evolution (1911 [1907]) Henri Bergson discusses the distinction between the living, biot...
The received view of Bergson’s philosophy of life is that it advances some form of vitalism under th...
In the eyes of the biologist Jacques Monod, Bergson is “the most illustrious promoter of a metaphysi...
International audienceMy claim in this paper is that Bergson's vitalism constitutes only a pseudo-na...
Vitalism was long viewed as the most grotesque view in biological theory: appeals to a mysterious li...
Vitalism is typically presented as the belief – scientific, metaphysical, poetic and other – in the ...
This thesis presents a comparative study of Heri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche through the lens of...
The eminent French biologist and historian of biology François Jacob once notoriously declared, “On ...
The term ‘vitalism’ is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century...
The term ‘vitalism’ is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century...
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) contributed major philosophical works on time, consciousness, evolution an...
An important epistemological convention for scientific research is to make a strict separation betwe...
I examine a series of definitions, defences and rejections of early modern vitalism. This yields a b...
The basic element to determine Bergson’s standpoint of thought is to be found in his attempt to vind...
In Creative Evolution (1911 [1907]) Henri Bergson discusses the distinction between the living, biot...
The received view of Bergson’s philosophy of life is that it advances some form of vitalism under th...
In the eyes of the biologist Jacques Monod, Bergson is “the most illustrious promoter of a metaphysi...
International audienceMy claim in this paper is that Bergson's vitalism constitutes only a pseudo-na...
Vitalism was long viewed as the most grotesque view in biological theory: appeals to a mysterious li...
Vitalism is typically presented as the belief – scientific, metaphysical, poetic and other – in the ...
This thesis presents a comparative study of Heri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche through the lens of...
The eminent French biologist and historian of biology François Jacob once notoriously declared, “On ...
The term ‘vitalism’ is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century...
The term ‘vitalism’ is most readily associated with a series of debates among 18th- and 19th-century...
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) contributed major philosophical works on time, consciousness, evolution an...
An important epistemological convention for scientific research is to make a strict separation betwe...
I examine a series of definitions, defences and rejections of early modern vitalism. This yields a b...
The basic element to determine Bergson’s standpoint of thought is to be found in his attempt to vind...