This character is sentenced to death for the attempted murder of Madame de Renal, despite her refusal to testify against him. For 10 points each,
[10h] Name this social-climbing protagonist of The Red and the Black. After his execution, this character’s severed head is kissed and buried by his lover, Mathilde de la Mole.
ANSWER: Julien Sorel [or Julien Sorel]
[10h] Name this book that uses the duck-rabbit illusion to illustrate how a “gestalt flip” occurs during paradigm shifts.
ANSWER: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [prompt on SSR]
[10e] The Red and the Black contrasts the army’s red uniforms with the black uniforms of this religious institution. Fabrizio del Dongo retires to a Carthusian monastery operated by this institution at the end of another novel.
ANSWER: Roman Catholic Church [prompt on church]
[10m] Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argues that most scientists rarely attempt to disprove the accepted paradigm, contradicting this Austrian-British philosopher’s theory that science is characterized by falsifiability. This philosopher wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies.
ANSWER: Karl Popper [or Sir Karl Raimund Popper]
[10m] This realist French author wrote The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.
ANSWER: Stendhal [or Marie-Henri Beyle]
[10e] Because they both abandoned teleology, Kuhn compared his theory of scientific advancement to this English naturalist’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
ANSWER: Charles Darwin [or Charles Robert Darwin]
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