Einstein vs. Bergson

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An Enduring Quarrel on Time

Alessandra Campo, Simone Gozzano

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De Gruyter
08 November 2021

Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Society & culture: general; Impact of science & technology on society; Time (chronology), time systems & standards

Series: Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media

This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4–6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on 6 April 1922, divided Einstein and Bergson: the nature of time.

For Einstein, scientific time is the only time that matters and the only time we can rely on. Bergson, however, believes that scientific time is derived by abstraction, even in the sense of extraction, from a more fundamental time. The plurality of times envisaged by the theory of Relativity does not, for him, contradict the philosophical intuition of the existence of a single time. But how do things stand today? What can we say about the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of time in the light of contemporary science? What do quantum mechanics, biology and neuroscience teach us about the nature of time?

The essays collected here take up the question that pitted Einstein against Bergson, science against philosophy, in an attempt to reverse the outcome of their monologue in two voices, with a multilogue in several voices.

Edited by: Alessandra Campo, Simone Gozzano
Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 814g
ISBN: 9783110753509
ISBN 10: 3110753502
Series: Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media
Pages: 467
Publication Date: 08 November 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alessandra Campo and Simone Gozzano, University of L’Aquila, Italy.