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The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time

by Jimena Canales

An examination of the 1922 debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson regarding the nature of time. The text analyses how their conflicting scientific and philosophical perspectives shaped modern thought and created a rift between the sciences and the humanities.

Accession 9797 ISBN 9780691165349 Publisher Princeton University Press
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Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized Einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of time.

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