The philosophy of Bergson
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Philosophy, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Griffith, William Ivor
issued: 2010-06-01T17:15:03Z
issued: 1930
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: [Abstract not available]
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note: E P H I L O S O P H Y O F B E R G S O N BY WILLIAM IVOR GRIFFITH A Thesis submitted for the Degree of M A S T E R O F A R T S in the Department of P H I L O S O P H Y THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. April, 1930. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Pages Introduction--Chapter I - Time and Free Will - Page Introduction—The Bergson method - Heraclitua - all is change -Bergson and mysticism. General thesis and summary of "Time and Free Will" - nature of conscious states - extensity versus intensity - quantity versus quality -quantitative measurement rests on superposition - superposition of psychic states impossible - intensity not a magnitude hut purely qualitative -Bergson's oonoeption of intensity - argument against pyschological "scales" -Weber's Law. Multiplicity of conscious states - principles of number - Bergson and Kant - number a spatial series - physical and psychical multiplicity -time - physical time and concrete duration - time of science artificial and conventional only - duration purely qualitative. Mechanism and dynamism - physical and psychological determinism - -assumption underlying all forms of determinism - concrete duration the true basis of freedom - conclusion. Chapter II—Matter and Memory. Page Introduction - main thesis - relation of matter and mind - critic-ism of the concepts of psychology. Perception and memory - perception concerned only with action -perception and consciousness - perception physical - memory psychical -motor habit and pure memory - union of perception and memory in recognition -memory images not dependent on the cortex - separate psychical existence *f memory images in time - errors of associationist theories examined - psy-chical states broken up and analysed under spatial concepts. Matter and spirit - certain antinomies examined - mobility a diluted form of consciousness - "rhythm of duration" - matter and memory differ in their "rhythm of duration" - union of matter and spirit in perception and II memory - conclusion. Chapter III -…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0096418
language: eng
degree discipline: Philosophy
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25318