1889 QUID ARISTOTELES DE LOCO SENSERIT. A Latin thesis, presented along with the following French thesis, for the degree of Docteur-es-Lettres. Published Alcan, Paris, pp. 82.
1889 ESSAI SUR LES DONNEES IMMEDIATES DE LA CONSCIENCE. French thesis, presented along with the above Latin thesis, for the degree of Docteur-es-Lettres. Published by Alcan, Paris, same year, in La Bibliotheque de philosophie contemporaine (pp viii-185) Eighteen editions called for by 1920.
English Translation: Time and Free Will, by F. L. Pogson, M.A. Published in 1910 by Swan & Sonnenschein (now George Allen & Unwin) in Library of Philosophy.
1891 LA GENESE DE L'IDEE DE TEMPS. A review, published in the Revue philosophique (Vol. for 1891, pp 185-190), of the book by Jean Mane Guyau, La Genese de l'Idee de Temps, with an introduction by Alfred Fouillee which appeared posthumously in 1890, two years after Guyau's death.
1895 LE BON SENS ET LES ETUDES CLASSIQUES. Discours au concours general des lycees et colleges, 1895-- another prize-giving address. Published in Revue scientifique, 4th Ser., No. 15, pp. 705-713, June, 1901, and by Delalain, Paris, 1895.
1896 MATIERE ET MEMOIRE. Essai sur la relation du corps avec l'esprit. Bergson's second notable work Published by Alcan, Paris, in Bibliotheque de philosophie contemporaine, pp iii-280. Thirteen editions by 1919. English Translation: Matter and Memory, by Nancy Margaret Paul and W. S. Palmer. Published 1911, Swan & Sonnenschein (now George Allen & Unwin), in the Library of Philosophy.
1897 PRINCIPES DE METAPHYSIQUE ET DE PSYCHOLOGIE D'APRES MONSIEUR PAUL JANET. A critical review in Revue philosophique (Vol. XLIV, Nov., 1897, pp. 525-551).
1900 LE RIRE. Essai sur la signification du comique. First published as two articles in Revue de Paris, 1900 (Vol. I, pp. 512-545 and pp. 759-791). Book form, Paris (Alcan), 1901, Bibliotheque de philosophie contemporaine, pp. vii-205. By 1919, seventeen editions. English Translation: Laughter--An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Brereton and Rothwell. Published 1911, Macmillan. This essay is based on a lecture given by Bergson while at Clermont-Ferrand, on Feb 18, 1884, a report of which appeared in the local paper Moniteur du Puy de Dome, Feb. 21, 1884.