The Editors

Ampersand: The McGill University Arts and Science Undergraduate Journal is committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary thought, demonstrating how divided fields can be woven together in an insightful way. We take part in a tradition, one that goes back so far and so deep its roots are lost in our collective memory. A survey of history reveals the progressive impact of interdisciplinary thought. There was no demarcation of anatomy and artistry for Da Vinci or of physiology and philosophy for Galen. There were no subject guides for Kant, Hume, Locke, or Descartes. Bridges across paradigms were once common: Newton was at once an alchemist and a physicist, Freud an initiator and a perpetrator of psychology. We hope to challenge what you think you know—about order, about change, about the relationship of arts and science. For that is progress, in the grand tradition.