VoxRat

Bergson won the Nobel Prize for literature, in 1927.
I don't know how "anti-darwinian" his (1907) "L'evolution creatice" was (I haven't read it. It's available online if anyone wants to check it out.) In any event, it doesn't seem to have had much impact on science.

budgie

Funny. Bergson, a philosopher, received the Nobel Prize in Literature for attempting to integrate the findings of biological science (Darwinian Evolution) with a theory of consciousness (link here). Hence the name of his book, Creative Evolution; it was definitely not a refutation of evolution and it was written in 1907.

I really need to get Bergman to talk to me again...

-jim

(Hey, I like the avatar Dr. Jim. I use it as my stage name in the local community theatre)

Hyndis

Owned.

budgie

Got another quote from that link:

"Bergson had been interested in Spencerian evolutionism in his youth, but he later abandoned Spencer's view placing intuition as the highest human faculty. In Creative Evolution Bergson argued that the creative urge, not the Darwinian concept of natural selection, is at the heart of evolution. Man's intellect has developed in the course of evolution as an instrument of survival. It comes to think inevitably in geometrical or 'spatializing' terms that are inadequate to lay hold of the ultimate living process. But intuition goes to the heart of reality, and enables us to find philosophic truth."

And of course, natural selection turns out to be much more of a contributor to evolution than the creative mind, especially during the synthesis. Jerry needs to read his books more carefully and he needs to read more up-to-date books, scientifically speaking.

Dang that VoxRat - you are quicker to the google than a baptist to a river.

-jim

VoxRat

And, indeed, I confess all I know about Bergson is via Google.

I note however, that - so far as I can tell - Bergson won the Nobel in 1927.

The compulsive liar Bergman wrote:

chieftain

All I know about him is via Monty Python:

Michael Miles: Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: What great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?
Woman: I don't know that!
Michael Miles: Well, have a guess.
Woman: Henri Bergson.
Michael Miles: Is the correct answer!
Woman: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him.

angelo

It was reported in the newspapers here that she was having a crisis of faith at one time. Maybe she was a closet atheist. How could they give such a person the prize? she would preach to the poor and destitute that poverty was a gift from God and to accept their burdon.