Henri Bergson and analytical philosophy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26806/fd.v11i1.299Abstract
During his lifetime, Henri Bergson achieved great popularity. Despite a certain decline of the attention paid to his philosophy, his work kept inspiring authors even in the second half of twentieth century, among others Gilles Deleuze. Nevertheless, the analytical philosophy has rather ignored Bergson so far. Though at first sight his philosophy seems orthogonal with the analytical tradition, his work contains ideas which could prove productive for the analytical thought. We will focus on Bergson’s approach to wrong questions which in many respects resembles that of logical positivists. Then we will propose how Bergson’s ideas can contribute to the theory of rule-following and normativistic theories of meaning. Both issues will be rather just sketeched, a more detailed elaboration remains yet to be pursued as further work.
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