Time and Free Will

{{Short description|1889 dctoral thesis of Henri Bergson (1889)}}

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Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness ({{Langx|fr|Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience}}) is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889. The essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of duration, which would become highly influential among continental philosophers in the following century.{{cite book|author=F. C. T. Moore|title=Bergson: thinking backwards|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780521424028|page=3}}