With <i>Bergson’s Scientific Metaphysics</i>, not only do we have an essential text in the ongoing return to Bergson, but an exhaustive analysis that puts <i>Matter and Memory</i> back where it should be – at the heart of the most important debates in the metaphysics of time and the philosophy of mind.<i> </i>
John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University, UK
Through its 16 chapters, <i>Bergson’s Scientific Metaphysics</i> shows how Bergson’s thought, and in particular his difficult <i>Matter and Memory</i>, remain relevant to contemporary cognitive science. <i>Bergson’s Scientific Metaphysics</i> confirms Bergson’s claims that science reaches the absolute. Bergson himself would have been very proud of this book.
Leonard Lawlor, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University, USA
This volume gathers important contributions by a large team of renowned international scholars to a renewed, contemporary understanding of Bergson’s metaphysics of time and memory. It offers a variety of new perspectives on the real issues and problems, while persistent misunderstandings are cleared away. A crucial text for Bergson studies.
Mark Sinclair, Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Yasushi Hirai is a sharp and authoritative reader of Bergson’s work. He has curated an enormously valuable collection of writings on <i>Matter and Memory</i>, rightly placing the attention on its fruitfulness in the most current reflections on memory and perception. A source of inspiration for all trying to think in duration.
Caterina Zanfi, Researcher and President of the Society of Friends of Bergson, Scientific Research National Centre, France