Proust - the Scientist

Reading fiction and the psychoanalytic experience: Proust on reading and on reading Proust.

Reading can at times engage one emotionally and entail inner psychological experiences in ways akin to those in clinical psychoanalysis. In that light, after a general introduction regarding the import of reading, attention is turned to Proust, Freud's literary complement, as an exemplary instance to illustrate those similarities. Ideas of Proust on reading are followed by thoughts on reading P...

Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty

Proust: the body and literary form

Florence Nightingale, William Farr and John Simon. All of these have received a good measure of historical attention, but the engineer Joseph Bazalgette, architect of London's main drainage system, and arguably originator of the blueprint for modem city sanitation, has been neglected by historians. This is a pity, because the conception of Bazalgette's grand plan for London's drainage, the tech...

Proust: A Nano Proof Assistant

Proust is a small Racket program offering rudimentary interactive assistance in the development of verified proofs for propositional and predicate logic. It is constructed in stages, some of which are done by students before using it to complete proof exercises, and in parallel with the study of its theoretical underpinnings, including elements of Martin-Löf type theory. The goal is twofold: to...

Stereotypic Images of the Scientist : The Draw - A - Scientist Test *

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries visual and verbal images of the scientist were many and varied. Caricaturists, cartoonists, artists, and writers produced a diverse range of stereotypic figures: diabolical madmen, distinguished professors, harmless eccentrics, learned buffoons, and fashionable dilettantes. Naturalists in the field among flora and fauna were often pictured, as were...