International Workshop
Reassessing Bergson
11 - 12 September 2019
University of Cambridge
Reassessing Bergson
11 - 12 September 2019
University of Cambridge
Speakers
Barry Dainton (Liverpool)
Sonja Deppe (Jena / Landau)
Élie During (Paris X Nanterre)
Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley)
Anne Sophie Meincke (Southampton)
Emmanuel Picavet (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Steven Savitt (Vancouver)
Mark Sinclair (Roehampton)
Yaron Wolf (Oxford)
Frédéric Worms (ENS, Paris)
Caterina Zanfi (CNRS / ENS)
Barry Dainton (Liverpool)
Sonja Deppe (Jena / Landau)
Élie During (Paris X Nanterre)
Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley)
Anne Sophie Meincke (Southampton)
Emmanuel Picavet (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Steven Savitt (Vancouver)
Mark Sinclair (Roehampton)
Yaron Wolf (Oxford)
Frédéric Worms (ENS, Paris)
Caterina Zanfi (CNRS / ENS)
Program
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
08.45 - 09.00
Matyáš Moravec (Cambridge) - Welcome & Introduction
09.00 - 09.45
Anne Sophie Meincke (Southampton) - Lessons from Bergson for (Analytic) Process Metaphysics
09.45 - 10.30
Florian Fischer (Siegen) - Bergsonian Answers to Contemporary Persistence Questions”
11.00 - 11.45
Mark Sinclair (Roehampton) - Express Yourself! Bergson on Freedom
Lunch Break
13.00 - 13.45
Steven Savitt (UBC) - What Bergson Should Have Said to Einstein
13.45 - 14.30
Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley) - Bergson: Misreadings / Rereadings
15.00 - 15.45
Sonja Deppe (Jena / Landau) - The Benefits of Bergson’s ‘Qualitative Multiplicity’ for Temporal Metaphysics
15.45 - 16.30
Emmanuel Picavet (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) - Bergsonian Challenges for Our Understanding of Regulation, Interaction and Constraints in Connection With Collective Aspirations
08.45 - 09.00
Matyáš Moravec (Cambridge) - Welcome & Introduction
09.00 - 09.45
Anne Sophie Meincke (Southampton) - Lessons from Bergson for (Analytic) Process Metaphysics
09.45 - 10.30
Florian Fischer (Siegen) - Bergsonian Answers to Contemporary Persistence Questions”
11.00 - 11.45
Mark Sinclair (Roehampton) - Express Yourself! Bergson on Freedom
Lunch Break
13.00 - 13.45
Steven Savitt (UBC) - What Bergson Should Have Said to Einstein
13.45 - 14.30
Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley) - Bergson: Misreadings / Rereadings
15.00 - 15.45
Sonja Deppe (Jena / Landau) - The Benefits of Bergson’s ‘Qualitative Multiplicity’ for Temporal Metaphysics
15.45 - 16.30
Emmanuel Picavet (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) - Bergsonian Challenges for Our Understanding of Regulation, Interaction and Constraints in Connection With Collective Aspirations
Thursday, 12 September 2019
08.45 - 09.00
Opening remarks
09.00 - 09.45
Barry Dainton (Liverpool) - Bergson, Einstein, and the Fall of Light
09.45 - 10.30
Caterina Zanfi (CNRS / ENS) - Time and History in Bergson’s Philosophy
11.00 - 11.45
Frédéric Worms (ENS) - Thinking in Bergson’s Philosophy
Lunch Break
13.00 - 13.45
Elie During (Paris X Nanterre) - Indeterminacy, Non-Locality and Simultaneity: Uncovering Bergson’s Creative Present
14.15 - 15.00
Yaron Wolf (Oxford) - Bergson and the Experience of Time: A Contemporary Perspective
15.00 - 15.30
Florian Fischer (Siegen) - Concluding Remarks
08.45 - 09.00
Opening remarks
09.00 - 09.45
Barry Dainton (Liverpool) - Bergson, Einstein, and the Fall of Light
09.45 - 10.30
Caterina Zanfi (CNRS / ENS) - Time and History in Bergson’s Philosophy
11.00 - 11.45
Frédéric Worms (ENS) - Thinking in Bergson’s Philosophy
Lunch Break
13.00 - 13.45
Elie During (Paris X Nanterre) - Indeterminacy, Non-Locality and Simultaneity: Uncovering Bergson’s Creative Present
14.15 - 15.00
Yaron Wolf (Oxford) - Bergson and the Experience of Time: A Contemporary Perspective
15.00 - 15.30
Florian Fischer (Siegen) - Concluding Remarks
Venue
Old Library,Pembroke College
Cambridge CB2 1RF, United Kingdom
Old Library,Pembroke College
Cambridge CB2 1RF, United Kingdom
Reading Seminar
Accompanying this workshop, there will be a reading seminar on the 10th of September 2019. More details on this will follow.
Accompanying this workshop, there will be a reading seminar on the 10th of September 2019. More details on this will follow.
Registration
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please e-mail mm2153@cam.ac.uk.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please e-mail mm2153@cam.ac.uk.
Organization
Florian Fischer, Matyáš Moravec and Sam Sokolsky-Tifft
Florian Fischer, Matyáš Moravec and Sam Sokolsky-Tifft
This event is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Aristotelian Society, the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Mind Association, the Société des Amis de Bergson, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
