''Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness'' () is
Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889. The essay deals with the problem of
free will
Free will is generally understood as the capacity or ability of people to (a) choice, choose between different possible courses of Action (philosophy), action, (b) exercise control over their actions in a way that is necessary for moral respon ...
, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of
duration, which would become highly influential among
continental philosophers in the following century.
Editions
* Henri Bergson,
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness', Dover Publications 2001, .
References
See also
*
Immediate experience
External links
1910 English translation of ''Time and Free Will''Multiple formatsat the
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ...
1889 non-fiction books
Metaphysics books
Works by Henri Bergson
Books about consciousness
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