Back in the 1950s a philosopher named John L. Austin taught at Oxford University and has become famous for his detailed analytical examination of the later philosophy of one Ludwig Wittgenstein. However, rather than engage in broad generalizations about the importance of ordinary language in sorting out the various philosophical puzzles to which traditional theorizing…

Henri Bergson was born in 1859, the same year as John Dewey and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published. His major works were Time and Freewill (1889), An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), Creative Evolution (1907), and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Bergson taught at the University of Paris for…