#  Workshop on the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 

 



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 **February 22, 2020** 

 08:30AM - 05:00PM EST 

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 **Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall**  



 

 



 

 9:30 – 10:00: Coffee and Welcome

 10:00 – 11:15: Ruth Hagengruber (Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn, Germany), "Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Kant: Eberhard’s reference to Du Châtelet and the Transcendental Turn," comments by Katherine Brading (Duke).

 11:30 – 12:45: Clara Carus (Harvard), "The underlying principles of Du Châtelet's *Institutions de Physique* - bridging Empiricism and Rationalism," comments by Andrew Janiak (Duke).

 12:45 – 1:45: Catered lunch in the Philosopher’s Lounge\*

 1:45 – 3:00: Marius Stan (Boston College), "Newtonianism and the physics of *Institutions de physique,*" comments by Alison Peterman (University of Rochester)

 3:15 - 4:30: Anne-Lise Rey (Paris Nanterre, France), ""Hypotheses fingo. Certainty and Imagination in Du Châtelet's Institutions de Physique," comments by Colin Chamberlain (Temple)

 4:30 - 5:00: Wine & Cheese Reception

 \* Third Floor Emerson Hall. All are welcome to attend the catered lunch, but please let us know if you are coming by February 7 so that we can order enough food.



 

 



 

 

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