Celebration and Confrontation: Yusef Komunyakaa in Conversation about Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism

"Two More Throws against Oblivion": Walt Whitman and the New York Herald in 1888

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: a poet and his physician

follows with a wonderful piece on the cataloguing of the monstrous from the cabinet to the collections and representations of embryological monsters. Roy Porter, too, fills in the details for the eighteenth century. His brilliant essay on "monsters and the mad" fills in the conceptual gap which Zapperi leaves between these two categories. He shows how both categories reinforce each other on the...

A Conversation About Fuzzy Logic and Vagueness

CF: I am flattered by this reference to my own work. But we should let our intended audience know a bit a more about the background of those two contributions. I still remember that I imagined to be quite bold and provocative by submitting a paper to a workshop on Soft Computing—organized by you, by the way, in 2003—that suggested already in the title that logicians should not just presume that...