Á. Lovász

Henri Bergson’s Haunted Epistemology: Consciousness Unframed

Literature January 9, 2023 Á. Lovász

Henri Bergson's ontology in Matter and Memory reconceives matter as the sum of all images and introduces cosmic perception and memory, dissolving the sharp divide between mind and matter. This panpsychist framework has epistemological consequences, rejecting reductionism and determinism. The author applies Bergson's image-ontology to his 1913 lecture on the possible survival of consciousness after death, suggesting that Bergson's ideas support an anti-reductionist and indeterministic epistemology.