Howe, Lawrence W.  "Unmasking Bergson's Idealism."  Southwest Philosophical Studies 15 (1993): 43-50.

Abstract

This paper attempts to sketch an interpretation of Bergson's metaphysics. In the first part I want to discuss what I take to be the core of Bergson's analysis of the origin of concepts that disfigure experience. In the second part I want to examine how Bergson's epistemological analysis informs his metaphysical position. I will try to suggest reasons of interpreting Bergson, not as a vitalist, nor as a pioneer of process metaphysics, but as one of the last of the nineteenth century idealists.