Simone Weil (1909-1943). French philosopher and mystic whose work on attention, affliction, and the social conditions of labor has had increasing influence in the eight decades since her death at thirty-four. Weil's biographical record shows the discovery specialty operating at extreme intensity: she lived as a factory worker for a year (despite her bourgeois background and academic credentials) to understand industrial labor from the inside, fought briefly in the Spanish Civil War, refused to eat more than what was rationed in occupied France during the war, and died in England of self-imposed starvation while writing some of the most concentrated philosophical prose of the twentieth century. Her thinking on attention — sustained, undivided, costly attention as the foundation of both intellectual and moral life — reads as a description of the cognitive mode the discovery specialty operates in. The integration partner was her brother André Weil (himself a major mathematician) and the small community of friends who preserved her notebooks and arranged for posthumous publication. Albert Camus called her "the only great spirit of our times."