Abstract: Ideas of spirit and spirituality are obstacles to better appreciation of Indigenous experience and culture among scholars trained in contemporary Euro-American philosophy. Part of the reason is not appreciating philosophy's own concept of spirit, which is a word for anything that endures, develops, or evolves; for instance, songs, stories, dances, aromas, speech, consciousness,...
Abstract In Matter and Memory, Bergson introduces theories of perception and memory that feature his concept of the virtual. Perception is virtual action and memory is virtual experience. Virtual existence is the mode of being common to tendencies, dispositions, generalities, and habits, as well as memories and the past itself. Bergson’s theory of memory is an alternative to practically...
Abstract Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was for a time the most famous philosopher in the world and one of the few to receive a Nobel Prize for his work. Among Anglophone philosophers, however, he is mostly forgotten, which is a loss, since Bergson was a great philosopher and understanding his ideas would enhance our philosophy with new problems and concepts. Living in Time explains, analyzes,...