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Reassessing Bergson

International Workshop
​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)

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

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

Venue
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.

Registration
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please e-mail [email protected].

Organization
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.
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  • About
  • Members
  • Events
    • Essence, Necessity, and Identity
    • Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Persistence and Modality
    • Synchronic and Diachronic Individuality (in Quantum Physics)
    • Foundations of Synchronic and Diachronic Individuality
    • Time & Consciousness >
      • Time & Consciousness, Abstracts
    • The Phenomenology of Time
    • God and Time IV
    • Somewhere in Time
    • What better time than then
    • Time and Death
    • Time.Image
    • Reassessing Bergson
    • Time Continuum
    • The Metaphysics of Time Continuum
    • God and Time III
    • Agency, Past and Future
    • The Metaphysics of Agency, Past and Future
    • It's a Matter of Time
    • At the Edge of Time
    • Hyperstition
    • The Now Now
    • Change and Change-Makers
    • Der Gegenwartige Augenblick
    • God and Time II
    • Time, What is Time
    • Zeit fur Kant
    • Time after Time
    • It's About Time
    • The Power to Change
    • God and Time
    • Time and Modality
    • The Metaphysics of Time and Modality
    • Tense and Tensibility
    • Powers and Change
    • Time and Change
    • Being in Time
    • New Developments in the Philosophy of Time
    • Tense vs Tenseless Theory
  • Expeditions
    • Change and Change-Makers
    • God and Time
    • Time and Literature
    • Time since the Middle Ages
  • Publications