Don’t forget to register for our upcoming online workshop, jointly organized by Dr. Pedro Pricladnitzky and Dr. Stefano Veneroni, in collaboration with the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (University of Paderborn) and the Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno (ISPF-CNR).

Date: 5–6 June 2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 7:00 PM (CEST)
Contact: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
Registration: To receive the Zoom link, please click here.

This workshop explores the Living Forces Debate—a key controversy in early modern philosophy of nature—highlighting contributions by Descartes, Leibniz, Du Châtelet, and Kant. Special focus will be placed on Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique, in which she critically assessed Newtonian and Leibnizian physics and helped pave the way for the concept of kinetic energy.