BERKELEY, BERGSON AND QUALIA: AN ATTEMPT  TO OVERCOME KANTIAN’S LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Krzysztof Piętak

doi:10.31648/hip.11584

Published: 2025-12-19

No. 31 (2025)

Berkeley, Bergson i qualia: próba przezwyciężenia kantowskiego dziedzictwa w filozofii współczesnej

Krzysztof Piętak

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.11584

Abstract

The article is an attempt to explain the causes of the marginalization by the philosophical mainstream of two philosophers – George

Berkeley and Henry Bergson – and one problem, namely the problem of qualia discussed in

contemporary philosophy of mind in the context

of physicalism. According to the thesis of the

article, the main causes of this marginalization

is due to the anti-Kantian spirit of Berkeley,

Bergson, and qualia. The aim of the article is

to vindicate Berkeley’s and Bergson’s philosophy in contemporary discourse by showing that

they are relevant to the problem of qualia.

Keywords:

Berkeley, Bergson, Kant, philosophy of mind, qualia

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Piętak, K. (2025). Berkeley, Bergson i qualia: próba przezwyciężenia kantowskiego dziedzictwa w filozofii współczesnej. Humanities and Natural Sciences, 31(31), 147–168. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.11584

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