This summer we will host a Harvard History Workshop on Émilie du Châtelet in cooperation with the Center for the History of Women Philosophers. The workshop is organized by Jeff McDonough, Harvard University and Aaron Wells, Paderborn University and Ruth Hagengruber, Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University. The talks will take place in person only at the Paderborn University; everyone is welcome to come!

Look forward to  the following talks:

18th April: Dr. Guillaume Coissard, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on “Du Châtelet’s Influence on French Materialism”

The commentator for the talk “Du Châtelet’s Influence on French Materialism” on the 18th of April is Ruth Hagengruber. Just recently she has published a review on Charles T. Wolfe, Lire le matérialisme. Full review here.

The materialist vision is notconfined to an identified space or to a mechanistic chain, and yet this does not meanthat the body has a nature that is beyond the physical universe

-Hagengruber, Ruth Edith. “Review: Charles T. Wolfe, Lire le matérialisme.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2023.