Under the direction of Mr. Evaldo Sampaio from the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, a special issue on Bergson has been published in the journal Sintese, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of The Creative Mind. You can now access it at the following link:
https://www.faje.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/Sintese/issue/view/631
As you will see, the main members of the PBJ (Bergson Project in Japan) have contributed significantly, along with our Rocco Ronchi. I warmly invite you to check it out and share it.
Presentation
O PENSAMENTO E O MOVENTE - 90 ANOS (CREATIVE MIND - 90 YEARS)
Evaldo Silva Pereira Sampaio, Henrique Fróes
Articles
THE DISCOVERY OF THE PSYCHIC UNCONSCIOUS AND THE FIRST BERGSONIAN THEORY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
Henrique Fróes
PHILOSOPHY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF MEANING: THE QUESTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY IN BERGSON
Evaldo Silva Pereira Sampaio
DOES TIME HAVE A SPEED? TIME QUALIA AND BERGSON’S DURÉE
Yasushi Hirai
BERGSON’S CRITIQUE OF THE IDEA OF NOTHINGNESS AND OF THE QUESTION WHY THERE IS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING: A SKETCH OF A FORMAL RECONSTRUCTION
Tatsuya Murayama
RHYTHMEASURE REVISITED. DURATION-NUMBER, MULTI-TIME SCALE THEORY, ETHICS OF DÉMESURE IN BERGSON’S PHILOSOPHY
Hisashi Fujita
WHAT IS THE PRESENT IN BERGSON’S THOUGHT?
Tatsuya Higaki
THE PEDAGOGY OF NOTHING
Rocco Ronchi
CATEGORIES AS ONTOLOGICAL INVARIANTS OF THE SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF DISCOURSE IN LIMA VAZ (II)
Marcelo Fernandes de Aquino
Caterina Zanfi Lecture Series in Japan
https://matterandmemory.jimdofree.com/english-1/2024-zanfi-lecture-series/
Remembering: Analytic and Bergsonian Perspectives 3
(Université Grenoble Alpes)
17-18 NOVEMBER, 2023.
CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY OF MEMORY, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES.
Schedule:
17 November 2023
13:00-13:55. Bergsonian theory of memory in the causalist-simulationist debate. Hisashi Fujita (Kyushu Sangyo University).
14:00-14:55. TBD. Kourken Michaelian (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes).
14:55-15:30. Coffee break.
15:30-16:25. Bergson and episodic memory function. Doudja Boumaza. (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes/Keio University).
16:30-17:25. Slices of the past: How events are temporally compressed in episodic memory. Arnaud D'Argembeau (Université de Liège).
19:30. Dinner.
18 November 2023
09:30-10:25. On the epistemic powers of memory consolidation. Uku Tooming (University of Tartu) and Kengo Miyazono (University of Hokkaido).
10:25-11:00. Coffee break.
11:00-11:55. The myth of authentic memory. André Sant'Anna (Université de Genève).
11:55-13:30. Lunch.
13:30-14:25. Making a case for authenticism about accuracy conditions of episodic memory. Denis Perrin (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes).
14:30-15:25. Localisation in time: A lost context of the taxonomies of memory in the 19th century. Yasushi Hirai (Keio University).
Organizers: Kourken Michaelian (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes), Doudja Boumaza (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes/Keio University), Yasushi Hirai (Keio University), Hisashi Fujita (Kyushu Sangyo University).
At the SAB invitation, Hisashi Fujita and Yasushi Hirai will be holding a four-day consecutive seminar in Paris. They will introduce Bergson studies in Japan.
For more details on the program, please check here.
https://bergson.hypotheses.org/2700
2023/04/10 update:
The videos are available on the SAB channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe2Z4p5NJMQdR2bE1_AOpAJTS90BmeYIg
There is an update on the special page for the workshop 'Bergsonian « duration » and its mathematical ranges'. A transcription is available.
Hirai, Y (ed.) Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics: Matter and Memory Today. Bloomsbury
publication date: 2023.05.18
This volume brings Bergson's key ideas
from Matter and
Memory into dialogue with
contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy. Focusing specifically on the application of Bergson's ideas to cognitive science, the circuit
between perception and memory receives full explication in 15 different essays.
By re-reading Bergson through a cognitive lens, the essays provide a series of alternative analytic interpretations to the standard continental approach to Bergson's oeuvre, without fully
discounting either approach. The relevance of philosophies of mind and memory sit alongside the role of a metaphysics of time in exploring connections to psychology, biology, and physics. This
eclecticism includes an exciting focus on numerous topics that are not given sufficient attention in extant studies of Bergson, including the precise nature of his ideas on dualism, memory, and
ecological theories of perception, especially in relation to his contemporaries. Led by leading Bergson scholars from France and Japan, this book maps the rich terrain of Bergson's contemporary
relevance alongside the historical context of his ideas.
Review
“With Bergson's Scientific
Metaphysics, not only do we have an essential text in the ongoing return to Bergson, but an exhaustive analysis that puts Matter and Memory back where it should be – at the heart of
the most important debates in the metaphysics of time and the philosophy of mind. ” ―John Ó
Maoilearca, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University, UK
“Through its 16 chapters, Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics shows how Bergson's thought, and in particular his difficult Matter and Memory, remain relevant to contemporary cognitive
science. Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics confirms Bergson's claims that science reaches the absolute. Bergson himself would have been very proud of this book.” ―Leonard Lawlor, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University, USA
“This volume gathers important contributions by a large team of renowned international scholars to a renewed, contemporary understanding of Bergson's metaphysics of time and memory. It offers
a variety of new perspectives on the real issues and problems, while persistent misunderstandings are cleared away. A crucial text for Bergson studies.” ―Mark Sinclair, Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, UK
“Yasushi Hirai is a sharp and authoritative reader of Bergson's work. He has curated an enormously valuable collection of writings on Matter and Memory, rightly placing the attention on its fruitfulness in the most current
reflections on memory and perception. A source of inspiration for all trying to think in duration.” ―Caterina Zanfi, Researcher and President of the Society of Friends of Bergson, Scientific Research National Centre, France
Contributors: Yasushi Hirai、Paul-Antoine Miquel、Takeshi Miyake、Joël Dolbeault、Masato Goda、Hisashi Fujita、Stephen E. Robbins、Tetsuya Kono、Sébastien Miravète、Tatsuya Higaki、Barry Dainton、Takahiro Isashiki、Elie During、Pegio-Yukio Gunji、Ryusuke Okajima
PBJ 2022 Symposium
In Search of Time and Free Will
3, 4, 10 and 11 November 2022 Online
Registration required: https://forms.gle/xX8Srvz4K2WuwP7S7
Organized by Project Bergson in Japan (PBJ)
Supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 19H01190
go to the event page.
Remembering: analytic and Bergsonian Perspectives 2
We'll have the Analytic x Bergsonian memory workshop "Part 2" in Fukuoka.
Speakers include Kourken Michaelian, Shin Sakuragi, Ken-ichi Hara, Hisashi Fujita, Kengo Miyazono and Yasushi Hirai.
Language: English
Date: 2 Oct (Sun) 10:00-17:50 JST
Place: Room A701, Building A, Fukuoka University / Zoom
Organisers: Yasushi Hirai, Kourken Mikelian and Shin Sakuragi
Programme (all times are in JST):
10:00-10:50 Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Memory without causation? Responding to recent causalist challenges to the simulation theory of memory
11:00-11:50 Ken-ichi Hara (Hokkaido University)
Bergson on Remembering as Action
[11:50-13:00 Lunch Break]
13:00-13:50 Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
A new look on epistemic theory
14:00-14:50 Hisashi Fujita (Kyushu Sangyo University)
On Panoramic Memory: Analytic and Bergsonian Perspectives
[14:50-15:20 Café Break]
15:20-16:10 Yasushi Hirai (Fukuoka University)
A simulationist interpretation of Bergson's pure memory
16:20-17:10 Kengo Miyazono (Hokkaido University)
A Dilemma for Generationism about Imagination and Memory (co-authored with Uku Tooming)
17:20-17:50 General Discussion
Registration required: https://forms.gle/Zfpo5266qRDywjE59
PBJ Workshop
Novelty and Life Bergson's Philosophy of Evolution
In recent years, Bergson's Creative Evolution has received renewed attention at a global level. Mathilde Tahar, a Bergson scholar at the University of Toulouse, France, who has just completed her doctoral thesis on a contemporary re-reading of Creative Evolution, is visiting Japan as part of a research partnership between CNRS and Fukuoka University.
In Japan, Tsubasa Yoneda has just published a new book, Living Matter: Henri Bergson and the Idea of Individuation of Life (Seidosha), based on his epochal doctoral thesis on Creative Evolution submitted to Osaka University.
We are pleased to announce the following international workshop where two young scholars will thoroughly discuss the latest Bergsonian philosophy of life. The specific questioner will be Hirotaka Hiraga, who has also published a topical book on Bergson's mysticism this year. We look forward to your participation.
Saturday 18 June, 15:00-18:30 JST
Seminar Room AR, Fukuoka University Seminar House / Zoom
3-4-20 Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Programme:
15:00-15:50 Presentation Mathilde Tahar, University of Toulouse
15:50-16:00 Discussion part 1
16:10-17:00 Presentation Tsubasa Yoneda, Osaka University
17:00-17:10 Discussion part 2
17:20-17:50 Specific questions Hirotaka Hiraga, Rikkyo University
18:00-18:30 Plenary discussion
Organisers: Yasushi Hirai (Fukuoka University), Hisashi Fujita (Kyushu Sangyo University)
Language: English, no interpreters available.
Registration required. https://forms.gle/PTd6DRMdVhfs2AnZ6
45th Husserl Abend Lecture
The Élan Vital as a Tendency: Causality in Evolution beyond Aristotelian Modalities
Speaker: Mathilde Tahar (Université de Toulouse)
Discussants: Ken-ichi Hara (Hokkaido University) and Mayuko Nakahara (Sophia University)
Zoom : https://bit.ly/3xeojjd
Contact: tohoku.uni.philosophy.ethics_at_gmail.com
Supported by JSPS, PBJ (Project Bergson in Japan) and CNRS
PBJ WORKSHOP
DÉJÀ-VU AND MEMORY
Bergson and Modern Philosophy of Memory
Talk : "A neo-Bergsonian view about déjà-vu" by Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alps / Centre for Philosophy of Memory)
Respondent 1: Ken'ichi Hara (Hokkaido University)
Respondent 2: Yasushi Hirai (Fukuoka University)
Date: September 12, 2021, 17:00-18:30 (JST)
Place: Zoom (registration required)
Organised by PBJ (Project Bergson in Japan) and Berutetsuken.
Supported by Société Franco-Japonaise de la Philosophie
Registration: https://forms.gle/XTWXe2MwRR6pVbzQ9
A cross-boundary exchange that aims to reboot Bergson's theory of déjà-vu, with reference to contemporary physiological and philosophical views on déjà-vécu and déjà-vu.
La conférence et les correspondances avec les répondants seront en anglais, mais vous pouvez également utiliser le français dans les questions.
The displayed time in CET is NOT of summertime. Please re-calculate your own time based on JST time. Sorry for the confusion!
International Workshop
Time, Freedom, and Creativity: Bergsonian Perspectives
Dates: July 29, 30.
CET: 9:00-11:00, 13:00-15:00
JST: 17:00-19:00, 21:00-23:00.
Place: Zoom, virtually London (Registeration Required)
Organizers: Project Bergson in Japan and Barry Dainton
Speakers: Barry Dainton, Hisashi Fujita, Yasushi Hirai, Kaoru Kamiyama, Anne Sophie Meincke, Tatsuya Murayama, Mark Sinclair, and Yaron Wolf.
(Mark Sinclair's talk is cancelled.)
Register here: https://forms.gle/wNUS51Ka637sAfEG8
Programme
THURSDAY 29
17:00-19:00 (JST), Chair: Tatsuya Murayama
Barry Dainton, Unity and Irreducibility
Yasushi Hirai, Bergson on Causality: A Generative Account on the Sense of Agency
21:00-23:00 (JST), Chair: Hisashi Fujita
Kaoru Kamiyama, Bergson on Sympathy
Anne Sophie Meincke, With Bergson Towards a New Bio-Processual
Metaphysics of Free Will - or: Why Contemporary Philosophers of Free
Will Ought to Read Bergson
FRIDAY 30
17:00-19:00 (JST), Chair: Barry Dainton
Yaron Wolf, Coinciding with Time's Flow: Intuition and the Experience of Time
Hisashi Fujita, On Personality: Analytical and Bergsonian Approaches
21:00-23:00 (JST), Chair: Yasushi Hirai
Tatsuya Murayama, Bergson on the Indefinability of Freedom
General Discussion
The report of the event is here:
NEW!
For a review of the event Bergsonian « duration » and its mathematical ranges, click here.
International Workshop
Time, Freedom, and Creativity: Bergsonian Perspectives
Dates: March 16, 17.
Place: University of Liverpool in London (33 Finsbury Square, London
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/london/contact/)
Organizers: Project Bergson in Japan and Barry Dainton
Speakers: Barry Dainton, Hisashi Fujita, Yasushi Hirai, Kaoru
Kamiyama, Anne Sophie Meincke, Tatsuya Murayama, Mark Sinclair, and
Yaron Wolf.
International Workshop
Remembering: Analytic and Bergsonian Approaches
One of the objectives of the PBJ (Project Bergson in Japan) is to attempt to “reboot” Bergsonian inspirations in the current philosophical context by way of interdisciplinary
collaboration with different traditions such as modern analytic philosophy and the science of consciousness.
Co-organized with the CPM (Centre for Philosophy of Memory), which is leading a rapidly growing analytical philosophy of memory, this workshop aims to expand the theoretical range
of Bergson's philosophy of memory through to the latest debate on this topic via productive dialogue across the different traditions.
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- Dates：Octobre 28, 29.
- Place：University of Grenoble Alpes
- Organizers：Yasushi Hirai (Project Bergson in Japan, Fukuoka University), Kourken Michaelian (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
- NEW Keynote Added: Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool)
- See also the Centre for Philosophy of Memory site.
- Review: https://bergson.hypotheses.org/1410
International Workshop
Physical Time, Biological Time: Bergsonism Today
Temps physique, temps biologique : actualité du bergsonisme
- Co-organized by PHISCIVI and PBJ
- Dates: Octobre 24, 25.
- Place: Université de Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès
- Oragnizers / Organisateurs : Elie During et Paul-Antoine Miquel
- Program（PDF）available here。
« Durée » bergsonienne et ses portées mathématiques
Bergsonian « duration » and its mathematical ranges
- 29 Dimanche, Septembre
- Université de Tokyo, Hongo Campus Faculty of Law&Letters, Bldg. 1 Salle215
- Sous la responsabilité de Takuya Nagano
- Ryusuke Okajima (Université de Keio), Sébastien Miravète (Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France)), The non-local character of duration as a factor of indeterminacy Élie During (Université Paris Nanterre (France)), Takuya Nagano (Kumamoto National Institute of Technology).
- Langues: français et anglais.
- Programme (PDF).
- For a review of the event, click here.
Events
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« Durée » bergsonienne et ses portées mathématiques
Bergsonian « duration » and its mathematical ranges -
- 29 Dimanche, Septembre
- Université de Tokyo, Hongo Campus Faculty of Law&Letters, Bldg. 1 Salle215
- Sous la responsabilité de Takuya Nagano
- Ryusuke Okajima (Université de Keio), Sébastien Miravète (Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France)), The non-local character of duration as a factor of indeterminacy Élie During (Université Paris Nanterre (France)), Takuya Nagano (Kumamoto National Institute of Technology).
- Langues: français et anglais.
- Programme (PDF).
- Temps physique, temps biologique : actualité du bergsonisme
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- Co-organised by PHISCIVI and PBJ
- Dates：Octobre 24, 25.
- Place：University of Toulouse
- Direction：Paul-Antoine Miquel, Elie During
- Keynote Speakers：Thierry Hoquet, Yasushi Hirai, Barry Dainton, Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Giuseppe Longo、Pierre Henri Gouhion.
- Remembering: Analytic and Bergsonian Approaches (Franco-Japanese workshop)
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- Co-organised by CPM（Centre for Philosophy of Memory) and PBJ（Project Bergson in Japan）
- Dates：Octobre 28, 29.
- Place：University of Grenoble Alpes
- Direction：Yasushi Hirai (PBJ, Fukuoka University), Kourken Michaelian (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Speakers：
- Keynote: Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool)
- Hisashi Fujita (Kyushu Sangyo University)
- Yasushi Hirai (Fukuoka University)
- Christopher McCarroll (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Sébastien Miravète (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès)
- Reza Mosmer (Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran; visitor, Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Takuya Nagano (National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College)
- Denis Perrin (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
- André Sant'Anna (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
- See also the Centre for Philosophy of Memory site.
- 2017 Rebooting Matter and Memory
- 2016 Diagnoses of Matter and Memory
- 2015 The Anatomy of Matter and Memory
"NOUS, BERGSONIENS : MANIFESTE DE KYOTO (2015)" by Elie During (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre) and Paul-Antoine Miquel (Université Toulouse 2)
All the proceedings have been edited and published in Japanese. Go to Books page.
Some of key conceptions (from Hirai's presentation)
This study is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) under Grant No. 15H03154 and No. 19H01190 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
PBJ (Project Bergson in Japan)
研究代表者：平井 靖史（慶應義塾大学 文学部 教授）
Director: Yasushi Hirai (Professor, Keio University, Japan)
email: hiraiya at gmail.com
本研究はJSPS科研費、基盤研究（B）24K00005のサポートを受けています