Bergson, Whitehead, and Process Thought

Al-Saji, Alia. "The Temporality of Life: Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Immemorial Past." The Southern Journal of Philosophy 45, no.2. (Summer, 2007): 177-206. [Bergson, Time]

An, Yanming. "Liang Shuming and Henri Bergson on Intuition: Cultural Context and the Evolution of Terms." Philosophy East and West 47, no. 3 (1997): 337-362.

Armstrong, Susan J.  “Review, David Griffin, Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead and Hartshorne.”  American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 15:3 (September 1994): 332-337. [Bergson, Postmodernism]

Auxier, Randall E.  "Bergson and the Calculus of Intuition."  Process Studies 28, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1999): 267.

_____.  “A Dialogue on Bergson.”  Process Studies 28, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1999): 339-45.

_____.  "Influence as Confluence: Bergson and Whitehead."  Process Studies 28, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1999): 301-338.

Bacca, Juan David Garcia.  Nueve Grandes Filosofos Contemporaneos Y Sus Temas, Vol. I, Bergson, Husserl, Unamuno, Heidegger, Scheler, Hartman.  Caracas: Imprenta Nacional, 1947. 

Bergson, Henri. Introduction to Metaphysics. New York: Wisdom Library/Philosophical Library, 1961. [abstract] 

Berndtson, Arthur.  “A Theory of Radical Creativity.”  Modern Schoolman 53, no.4 (1975): 1-18. [Bergson, Creativity]

Bjelland, Andrew G.  “Bergson’s Dualism in ‘Time and Free Will.’”  Process Studies 4, no.2 (1974): 83-106. [Bergson, Free Will, Time]

_____.  “Capek, Bergson, and Process Proto-Mentalism.”  Process Studies 11, no.3 (1981): 180-189. [abstract]

_____.  “Durational Succession and Proto-Mental Agency.”  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Evolutionary Epistemology, Durational Metaphysics, and Theoretical Physics: Capek and the Bergsonian Tradition.”  In Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time, ed. David R. Griffin (Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1986), 51-80. [also at Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time Conference, March 1984]

_____.  “P.A.Y. Gunter, Henri Bergson: A Bibliography.”  Process Studies 5, no.1 (Spring 1975): 60-62.

Calori, Roland.  “Organizational Development and the Ontology of Creative Dialectical Evolution.”  Organization 9, no.1 (February 2002): 127-150. [abstract] 

Capek, Milic. Bergson and Modern Physics.  Dordrecht: Reidel, 1971.  [abstract]

_____.  “Immortality of the Past:  Bergson and Whitehead.”  In Bergson and Modern Physics (Dordrecht, Holland:  D. Reidel, 1971), 152-54.  

 _____.  "La Pensee de Bergson en Amerique."  Revue Internationale de Philosophie 31 (1977): 329-350.  [abstract]

_____.  “Physical Events as Proto-mental Entities.  Bergson, Whitehead and Bohm.”  In Bergson and Modern Physics (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1971), 302-12.

 _____.  “Process and Personality in Bergson’s Thought.”  The Philosohical Forum 17 (1959-1960): 25-42.

_____.  "Review: Peter A. Y. Gunter, ed.  Bergson and the Evolution of Physics."  Process Studies 2, no.2 (Summer, 1972): 149-59. [abstract] 

_____.  “Simple Location and Fragmentation of Reality.”  Monist 48, no.2 (1964): 195-218. [abstract]

Corrigan, Kevin. “A New View of Idea, Thought, and Education in Bergson and Whitehead?” Interchange 36, no. 2 (2005): 179-198. [abstract] [Bergson, Education]

Dalton, Wayne. “The Fulfillment of Time: A Langerian/Whiteheadian Aesthetic of Music Performance.” Ph.D. Diss. School of Theology at Claremont, 1974. [Aesthetics, Bergson, Cosmology, Music, Time]

Delaney, C. F.  “Bergson on Science and Philosophy.”  Process Studies 2, no.1 (Spring, 1972): 29-43.

Devaux, Philippe.  “Le Bergsonisme de Whitehead.”  Revue Internationale de Philosophie 15, nos.56-57 (1961): 217-36.

Dibben, Mark R. "Management and Process Studies: Problems and Challenges." Seminar Paper given at the "Management and Process Studies" Seminar in Haddon Conference Center at Claremont School of Theology on June 13, 2006.

Dibben, Mark R. and Iain Munro.  “Applying Process Thought in Organizational Studies.” Process Studies 32, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2003): 183-95.

Dickson, Eric.  “Cassirer, Whitehead, and Bergson: Explaining the Development of the Symbol.”  Process Studies 32, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2003): 79-93.  [Bergson, Epistemology, Metaphysics]

Durie, Robin.  "Creativity and Life." The Review of Metaphysics 56 (December 2002): 357-367. [Bergson, Creativity, Evolution]

During, Elie. "Durations and Simultaneities: Temporal Perspectives and Relativistic Time in Whitehead and Bergson." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 259-278. [abstract]

Eslick, Leonard.  “Bergson, Whitehead, and Psychical Research.”  In A. C. Papanicolaon and P. A. Y. Gunter, eds. Bergson and Modern Thought (Switzerland:  Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), 353-68.  

Faber, Roland. “’O bitches of impossibility!’--Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead” In Deleuze, Whitehead and the Transformations of Metaphysics.  (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van Belgie Voor Wetenschappen En Kunsten, Belgium, 2005), 117-28.

Felt, James W.  “Epochal Time and the Continuity of Experience.” Review of Metaphysics 56, no. 1 (September 2002): 19-36. [Bergson, Metaphysics, Time]

_____.  "Intuition, Event-Atomism, and the Self."  In Bergson and Modern Thought, ed. Andrew C. Papanicolaou (New York: Harwood), 38-50. [abstract]

_____.  “Philosophic Understanding and the Continuity of Becoming.”  International Philosophical Quarterly 18, no.4 (1978): 375-93. [Becoming, Bergson]

_____.  “The Temporality of Divine Freedom.”  Process Studies 4, no.4 (1974): 252-62. [abstract]

Field, Richard W.  “William James and the Epochal Theory of Time.”  Process Studies 13, no.4 (Winter, 1983): 260-74. [abstract] [North American Philosophers, Bergson, Time]

Fornazari, Sandro Kobol. "O Bergsonismo de Gilles Deleuze. " Trans/Form/Ação 27, no. 2 (2004): 31-50. [abstract]

Frye, Robert E.  “Pragmatism in Recent Non-Pragmatic Systems: Santyana, Bergson, Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Diss., University of Indiana, 1956.  [Bergson, Pragmatism]

Griffin, David Ray, John B. Cobb Jr., Marcus P. Ford, Pete A. Y. Gunter, and Peter Ochs. Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead, and Hartshorne. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. [abstract]

Gunter, Pete A. Y. “The Actual Indefinite in Bergson and Whitehead.”  The International Journal for Field-Being 2, no.1 (2002). [Bergson, Mathematics]

_____, ed. Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969. [abstract]

_____.  "Bergson and the War against Nature."  In The New Bergson, ed. John Mullarkey. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. 168-82. [Bergson, Environment, Nature]

_____.  "Bergson, Mathematics, and Creativity."  Process Studies 28, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1999): 268-288. [Bergson, Creativity, Mathematics]

_____.  "Bergson's Philosophy of Education."  Educational Theory 45, no.3 (Summer, 1995): 379-94.  [abstract] [Bergson, Education]

_____.  Henri Bergson:  A Bibliography.  Revised Second Edition.  Bowling Green, OH:  Bowling Green State University, 1986,  557. [For listings omitted in the present bibliography] 

_____.  "Process-Relational Philosophy: The Raw, Unabashed Cash Value of a Mere Metaphysical Speculation."  In Frontiers in American Philosophy Volume II, ed. Robert W. Burch (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996).  [abstract]

_____. “Temporal Hierarchy in Bergson and Whitehead.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Temporal Hierarchy in Bergson and Whitehead.” Interchange 36, no. 1-2 (2005): 139-57. [abstract]

_____.  “Whitehead, Bergson, Freud: Suggestions Toward a Theory of Laughter.”  The Southern  Journal of  Philosophy  4 (Summer 1966): 55-60.  [abstract] [Bergson, Freud]

Hartshorne, Charles.  “Bergson’s Aesthetic Creationism Compared to Whitehead’s.”  In A. C. Papanicolaon and P. A. Y. Gunter, eds. Bergson and Modern Thought (Switzerland:  Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), 369-82. [Aesthetics, Bergson]

Hausman, Carl R.  "Bergson, Peirce, and Reflective Intuition."  Process Studies 28, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1999): 289-300.

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

Hurley, Patrick J.  “Bergson and Whitehead on Freedom.”  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 50 (1976): 107-17. [abstract] [Agency, Bergson, Freedom]

Johnson, A. H.  Whitehead’s Theory of Relativity (New York:  Dover Publications, 1962), 132-35.

Jones, W. T.  “Three Philosophers of Process:  Bergson, Dewey, and Whitehead.” In A History of Western Philosophy: The Twentieth Century to Wittgenstein and Sartre, Second Ed (New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 [1952]), 15-87.

Kaufman, Alvin H.  “Elan Vital, Nisus, and Creativity as Treated in the Thought of Henri Bergson, S. Alexander, and A. N. Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Diss., Boston University, 1952.

Khandker, Wahida. "Two Natures: Whitehead on Bergsonism, Dualism, and Becoming-Subject." Process Studies 36, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 245-71. [abstract] 

Koutroufinis, Spyridon. "Über die Affinität der Zeitphilosophie Henri Bergsons zum Ammonschen Verständnis von Zeiterleben (On the Affinity of Henri Bergson's Time Philosophy to Ammon's Understanding of the Experiencing of Time). Dynamische Psychiatrie 33, no. 180-181 (2000), 137-158. [Bergson, Time]

Lacey, A.R. "Bergson, Henri-Louis (1859-1941)." Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 1998. [Bergson, Metaphysics, Mind]

Lahav, Ran.  “Bergson and the Hegemony of Language.”  Southern Journal of Philosophy 28, no.3 (Fall, 1990): 329-42.

Lawlor, Leonard.  “The Ontology of Memory:  Bergson’s Reversal of Platonism.”  Epoche 8, no. 1 (Fall, 2003): 69-102.

Levi, Albert W.  “Bergson or Whitehead?" In Process and Divinity, eds. William L. Reese and E. Freeman (La Salle, IL:  Open Court, 1964), 139-59.

_____.  “Substance, Process, Being: A Whiteheadian-Bergsonian View.”  Journal of Philosophy 55, no.18 (1958): 749-61.

Lillie, Ralph S. "Types of Physical Determination and the Activities of Living Organisms." The Journal of Philosophy 28, no. 21 (October 8, 1931): 561-573. [Bergson, Panpsychism]

Long, Eugene Thomas.  “Process Philosophy.” In Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000, by Eugene Thomas Long. (Dordrect, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003): 359-83.

Lowe, Victor.  “The Influence of Bergson, James, and Alexander on Whitehead.”  Journal of the History of Ideas 10, no.2 1949): 267-96. [North American Philosophers, Bergson]

_____.  Understanding Whitehead.  Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins Press, 1962.

Lutzow, Thomas H.  “The Structure of Free Act in Bergson.”  Process Studies 7, no.2 (Summer, 1977): 73-89. [abstract] [Bergson, Freedom, Free Will]

Meland, Bernard E.  “The Roots of Religious Naturalism.” (unpubl.) [abstract] [Bergson, Relationality]

Milligan, Charles S.  “The Relevance of Bergson’s Philosophy.”  The Iliff Review 6, no.1 (Winter, 1949): 9-20. [abstract] [Bergson, Time]

Montebello, Pierre. "Univers, Cerveau, Images. La question psychophysiologique chez Bergson." Chromatikon II (2006): 205-218.  [Bergson, Consciousness, Cosmology]

Moran, Jon S.  "Bergsonian Sources of Mead's Philosophy." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 41-63.

Mullarkey, John.  "Introduction: La Philosophie Nouvelle, or Change in Philosophy."  In The New Bergson, ed. John Mullarkey (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999), 1-16.

Nakamura, Noboru. The Philosophy of Whitehead (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha, June 2007. [abstract]

_____. "'Space' in Time--Bergson and Whitehead." CPS Seminar, March 27, 2008 (unpubl.).  [Bergson, Time and Space]

Pemberton, Harrison J.  “The Problem of Personal Identity with Special Reference to Whitehead and Bergson.”  Ph.D. Diss., Yale University, 1953.

Reck, Andrew J.  “A. N. Whitehead.”  In Speculative Philosophy:  A Study of Its Nature, Types, and Uses (Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1972), 221-27.

_____.  “Bergson.”  In Speculative Philosophy:  A Study of Its Nature, Types, and Uses (Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1972), 199-207.

Romero, Gorgias. “On the title of Process and Reality.” Seminar paper presented in Butler, Claremont School of Theology. September 22, 2008. [abstract] 

Rose, Mary C.  “Three Hierarchies of Value:  A Study in the Philosophies of Value of Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, and Soren Kierkegaard.” Ph.D. Diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1949. [Bergson, Value Theory]

Schmidtke, Charles R.  “A Crossroads for Process Philosophy.”  Tulane Studies in Philosophy 24 (1975): 92-100. [Bergson, Critique of Process Thought, Metaphysics]

Seaman, Francis C.  “The Impact of the Theory of Relativity on Some Recent Philosophers.”  Ph.D. Diss., University of Michigan, 1951.  [Bergson, Whitehead, Alexander, Cassirer]

Shukla, J. P. "The Concept of Mind in Evolutionism." The University Journal of Philosophy (India) 2: 26-44. [Bergson, Consciousness, Evolution]

Singerman, Ora.  “The Relation Between Philosophy and Science: A Comparison of the Positions of Bergson and Whitehead.”  Iyyun 9, no.2 (April, 1968): 65-91. [In Hebrew]

Stahl, Roland.  “Bergson’s Influence on Whitehead.”  Personalist 36, no.3 (1955): 250-57.

_____.  “The Influence of Bergson on Whitehead.”  Ph.D. Diss., Boston University, 1950.

Stallknecht, N. S.  Studies in Philosophy of Creation, with Especial Reference to Bergson and Whitehead.  Princeton University Press, 1934.

Stahl, R.  "Bergson's Influence on Whitehead."  Persoualist 36 (1956): 250-257.

Stearns, J. Brenton.  “Becoming:  A Problem for Determinists?”  Process Studies 6, no.4 (Winter, 1976): 237-48. [abstract available]

Szendrei, Eric V.  “Bergson, Prigogine, and the Rediscovery of Time.”  Process Studies 18, no.3 (Fall, 1989): 181-93. [Bergson, Time]

Taylor, A. E.  “Dr. Whitehead’s Philosophy of Religion.”  Dublin Review 181, no.362 (1927): 17-41. [See pp. 34-37.]  

Whitehead, A. N.  “The Problem of Simultaneity.”  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 3 (1923): 34-41.

_____.  Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology.  Corrected Ed.  Eds. David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne.  New York:  The Free Press, 1978 [1929].  [References to Bergson, pp. xii, 33, 41, 82, 107, 114, 209, 220, 280, 321.]

_____.  “Reflections on Time and Endurance.”  Southern Journal of Philosophy 12, no.1 (1974): 117-26.

Whyte, Lancelot Law.  “A Modern Duel:  Einstein and Eddington v. Bergson and Whitehead.”  In Archimedes¾Or The Future of Physics.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928.

Wood, Martin.  “The Process of Organizing Knowledge: Exploring the In-between.” Process Studies 32, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2003):225-43. [Bergson, Deleuze, Epistemology]

Yonker, Nicholas.  “A Note Toward the Temporalization of Whitehead.” (unpubl.) [Bergson, Time, and Metaphysics]