ABSTRACT
Bergson, as we saw, began Time and Free Will by describing free will as his main topic, to which the chapters on intensity and duration were leading up. Later duration joins ‘voluntary determination’ as one of the ‘principal objects’ of the work, and this gives a more realistic assessment (TF, 226). Bergson is certainly more famous for his treatment of duration than for anything he said about free will, and what he said about duration is far more pervasive in his philosophy as a whole. Yet free will is a topic that should certainly be congenial to one who bases so much of his philosophy on life and consciousness, so what does he tell us about it?
