ABSTRACT
The notion of ‘event’ has quite an important role in philosophy of mind as well as of time. The ontological peculiarity of ‘events’, when clarified properly in contrast to ‘things’, helps us remarkably to understand the nature of time on the one hand, which implies a structural inter-connection between past events and present occurrences, and the higher mental abilities on the other, which requires references to those remote past events (what Bertrand Russell calls ‘mnemic’ phenomena). Henri Bergson, prominent philosopher of duration and consciousness, has developed a very inspiring and consistent theory on this subject. In this talk, I would like to share how a Bergsonian approach helps renew our understanding of the nature of events in relation to the problematics of mind and time.
