The Physicist and the Philosopher

This book tells the story of the explosive debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson on April 6, 1922, in Paris, which transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities.

Canales explores how this debate reverberated across the twentieth century, influencing figures such as Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger, and impacting various philosophical and scientific movements including American pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanics.

The book also discusses how new technologies of the period shaped people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debate.