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REVISITING EINSTEIN-BERGSON DISPUTE – ONLINE WORKSHOP ON JANUARY 7th 2022

Two thousand twenty-two signals the 100th birthday of Bergson and Einstein’s dispute about the nature of time. In 1922, the physicist and the philosopher met at the Société de philosophy in Paris to discuss the impact of the Theory of Relativity on their conceptions about time. The visions that they present seem, at first, irreconcilable. A century later, we propose revisiting and commenting on the debate in a series of communications listed below. Please join us on 7th January 2022 through the link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83615470359 ID da reunião: 836 1547 0359 PROGRAMME 9.30-9:40 – Introduction 9:40 - 10:25 – Opening Session : Prof. Dr. Élie During: 3 lessons from the Bergson-Einstein dispute Deleuze suggested that a good way to evaluate the meaning of a philosophical position on any given subject is to try and identify a mistake, an oversight and a concept: a global error committed by other philosophers, an essential insight that has been missed as a result, and