1 Introduction
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2 Prelude: Bergsonism and Anglophone Analytic Philosophy
2.1 Before Stardom
2.2 Bergsonism in Britain and America
2.3 Stebbings Response to Bergsons 1911 Lectures
2.4 Russell Meets Bergson
2.5 Costelloe-Stephens Response to Russell
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3 Henri Bergson: A Misunderstood Celebrity
3.1 Bergsons Historical Background
Spiritualism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century French Philosophy
Spiritualist Positivism
3.2 A Biological Epistemology of Perception
3.3 Memory and Recognition
3.4 Intellect and Intuition
3.5 Philosophy of Space and Time
Beyond Spencers Evolutionary Epistemology
Number, Quantity, and Space
Duree
3.6 Science and Metaphysics
3.7 Language
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4 William James and the Anglophone Reception of Bergsonism
4.1 A Philosophical Friendship
4.2 The Portrait of a Maitre
4.3 Intellectualism
4.4 Bergsons Radical Empiricism?
4.5 Radical Empiricism Versus Absolute Idealism
4.6 Jamess Influence on Bergsons Analytic Critics
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5 Ants, bees, and Bergson: Bertrand Russells Polemic
5.1 Contra Anti-intellectualism
5.2 Number and Space
5.3 Zenos Paradoxes
Zenos and Bergsons Solutions
Russells Mathematical Solution
Russells Objection to Bergsons Solution, and the Debate with Carr
5.4 Time and Memory
5.5 Perception and the Subject-Object Distinction
5.6 Russells Later Responses to Bergson
Jupiter sometimes nods
Evolutionism and Scientific Philosophy
Bergsons Place in the History of Philosophy
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6 Analytic and Synthetic Philosophy: Karin Costelloe-Stephens Defences of Bergson
6.1 Mereology
6.2 Recognition, Acquaintance, and the Limits of Thought
6.3 Costelloe-Stephens Reply to Russell
Space
Mathematical Continua and Processes of Change
6.4 Complexes and Syntheses
6.5 Russells Response to Costelloe-Stephen
6.6 Analytic Versus Continental Synthetic Philosophy
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7 A Call for Moderation: L. Susan Stebbings Critique of Bergson
7.1 How to Avoid Russells Errors
7.2 Bergsons Historical Context
7.3 Bergson Versus the Pragmatists on Truth
7.4 Anti-intellectualism
7.5 Intuition and Argumentation
7.6 Stebbings Objections to Bergsons Epistemology and Theory of Truth
7.7 Costelloe-Stephens Answer to Stebbings Objection
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8 Entracte: Bergsons Germanophone Reception and the Rise of Lebensphilosophie
8.1 The Philosophers Great War
8.2 The Demise of Bergsonism
8.3 The Rise of Lebensphilosophie
8.4 The Vienna Circles Opposition to Lebensphilosophie
8.5 Neuraths Russellian Critique of Spengler
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9 Evolutionary Epistemology: Moritz Schlicks Critique of Intuition
9.1 Anti-biologism
9.2 Schlicks Naturalised Epistemology
9.3 Intuitive Knowledge: A Contradiction in Terms
9.4 Images and Concepts
9.5 Judgements and Coordination
9.6 Philosophys Great Error Revisited
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10 From the Critique of Intuition to Overcoming Metaphysics: Schlicks Dialogue with Carnap
10.1 Schlick on Intuition and Metaphysics
10.2 Carnap on Implicit Definitions and Structure Descriptions
10.3 Carnaps Critique of Bergson
10.4 Schlicks Answer to Carnap
10.5 Schlicks Critique of Russellian Acquaintance
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11 Different Kinds of Nothing
11.1 Carnap and Neurath Shift Their Target
11.2 Carnap on Heideggers Pseudo-statements
11.3 Carnaps Response to Lebensphilosophie
11.4 Bergson and Carnap on Pseudo-problems About Nothing
11.5 Heideggers Angst Versus Bergsons Disinterested Intuition
11.6 Sartre Responds to Bergson and Heidegger
11.7 Ayer Contra Sartre on Nothing and Negation
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12 Doing Without Masters: Oxford Philosophy and the Analytic-Continental Divide
12.1 Ayer Revives Russell
12.2 Ryle Against the 1953 UNESCO Report
12.3 R.M. Hares Proposal for the Institutional Reform of Continental Philosophy
12.4 Ryle Against Continental Fuehrership
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13 Conclusion
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Index.