ABSTRACT
Henri Bergson’s philosophy of freedom offers an inventive contribution to the free will debate. Although Bergson develops his conception of freedom through criticisms of Immanel Kant’s take on the issue, I show that these two philosophers have far more in common than is usually recognised, including by Bergson himself. Bergson follows Kant’s footsteps in the philosophy of freedom both in how the problem of freedom is initially thematised and how the solution hinges on a distinction between “inner” and “outer” forms of causation. Both thinkers also find themselves in the difficult situation of “bridging the immense gulf”, in Kant’s words, between the inner and the outer, although their solutions differ.
