Sartre and Bergson: A Disagreement about Nothingness

Matter-Image or Image-Consciousness: Bergson contra Sartre

What brings together Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory and JeanPaul Sartre's Imagination and The Psychology of Imagination is the question of the ontology of the image. Bergson attempts to use the image to bridge the gap between mind and matter by refusing to distinguish clearly between what he calls “matter-images,” “perception-images,” and “memory-images.” By defining both consciousness and t...

Minimal (Disagreement About) Semantics

Disagreement about Inflation Expectations

Analyzing 50 years of inflation expectations data from several sources, we document substantial disagreement among both consumers and professional economists about expected future inflation. Moreover, this disagreement shows substantial variation through time, moving with inflation, the absolute value of the change in inflation, and relative price variability. We argue that a satisfactory model...

Being and Almost Nothingness

I am attracted to ontological pluralism, the doctrine that some things exist in a different way than other things.1 For the ontological pluralist, there is more to learn about an object’s existential status than merely whether it is or is not: there is still the question of how that entity exists. By contrast, according to the ontological monist, either something is or it isn’t, and that’s all ...

Adler and Sartre: comment.

I was very much interested in the article by Rom and Ansbacher entitled "An Adlerian Case or a Character by Sartre?" (4) not only because of its intrinsic value but also because I had myself analyzed the hero of Sartre's story "Erostratus" (5, pp. 41-58) and others of this author's characters from the angle of Adler's Individual Psychology some I 5 years ago (6, 7). Before quoting from this ana...