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.
International Workshop
Physical Time, Biological Time: Bergsonism Today
Temps physique, temps biologique : actualité du bergsonisme
« Durée » bergsonienne et ses portées mathématiques
Bergsonian « duration » and its mathematical ranges
Events
- 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).