1.
Denis
Kambouchner
professeur
d’histoire
de
la
philosophie
moderne
I
met
Jeanne
PROUST
in
Paris
on
July
2014,
occasion
on
which
she
asked
me
to
be
the
director
of
her
thesis
research
oriented
on
the
weakness
of
the
will
in
Nineteenth
Century
French
psychology.
Before
settling
in
the
USA
as
a
teacher
in
the
French
Program
of
the
Miami
International
Studies
Charter
High
School
(2010),
Jeanne
had
been
–
as
my
colleagues
Charles
Ramond
and
Christophe
Bouton
may
testify
-­‐
a
brilliant
student
of
the
Université
Michel
de
Montaigne
(Bordeaux
3),
and
then
of
the
Université
Panthéon
Sorbonne
(Paris
1).
I
first
found
remarkable
that
someone
whose
teaching
schedule
was
so
heavy
would
wish
to
add
the
task
of
a
distance
preparation
for
a
Doctorate
Dissertation.
I
also
found
remarkable
her
determination
to
initiate
the
broad
researches
necessary
for
the
study
of
her
subject,
notably
on
the
significant
but
today
neglected
work
of
the
great
French
psychologist
and
philosopher
Théodule
Ribot
(1839-­‐1916).
But
Jeanne
Proust’s
intellectual
agility
is
just
as
much
spectacular
as
the
energy
which
allowed
her,
for
over
ten
years
now,
to
multiply
her
activities
and
to
diversify
her
teaching
experiences.
A
bit
more
than
one
year
after
her
registration
as
a
PhD
student,
Jeanne
Proust’s
already
read
a
substantial
amount
of
works
not
only
about
the
psychological
tradition
in
France,
but
also
on
the
classical
sources
that
remain
very
important
within
this
tradition.
Her
reading
obviously
implies
a
confrontation
between
the
foresaid
psychological
theories
with
the
current
improvements
in
the
Philosophy
of
Mind.
Jeanne
PROUST
has
been
teaching
two
semesters
as
a
Philosophy
Professor
at
Miami
Dade
College.
She
currently
is
in
charge
of
an
Introduction
to
Philosophy
class,
and
a
Critical
thinking
and
Ethics
class.
After
the
steady
exchanges
I
had
with
her
during
the
last
months,
I
can
assure
that
I
entirely
trust
her
abilities
to
be
in
charge
of
undergraduates
within
any
Philosophy
department,
and
I
strongly
recommend
her
application
for
a
teaching
position.
Paris,
on
the
28th
of
November
2015,
Denis
Kambouchner
UFR
de
philosophie
17,
rue
de
la
Sorbonne,
75005
Paris
denis.kambouchner@univ-­‐paris1.fr