How close is Du Châtelet to the philosophy of Leibniz or the ideas of Wolff, and how near is Kant to the ideas of Du Châtelet
According to Eberhard, Kant had deduced his principles and basic concepts of transcendental criticism from Leibniz and Wolff. In the relevant place Eberhard substantiates his assertion with a reference to the Institutions physiques (1742), by the philosopher Du Châtelet.
This project investigates that topic in two regards. First it analyses the function of Du Châtelet’s quote in the context of Eberhard’s argument against Kant, that there is nothing “new” about his transcendental turn. The second part of the paper discusses the questions arising from this: How close are Kant’s arguments in favour of a “new” philosophy to those of Du Châtelet? Is Du Châtelet a hidden source for Kant’s achievement?
More coming soon: Ruth E Hagengruber: Époque Émilienne. Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749. Springer Cham.
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BBC World Forum A free-spirited physicist: Émilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749
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Video (2018) Émilie Du Châtelet and the Eberhard Controversy
Johann August Eberhard was convinced that “the Leibnizian philosophy contains just as much of a critique of reason as the new philosophy”. According to Eberhard, Kant had deduced his principles and basic concepts of transcendental criticism from Leibniz and Wolff. In the relevant place – the third part of his explanations On the Essential Distinction between Knowledge through the Senses and the Understanding – Eberhard substantiates his assertion with a reference to the Institutions physiques (1742), by the philosopher Du Châtelet.
In 2018 during the Libori Summer School, we investigated that topic. What is the function of Du Châtelet’s quote in the context of Eberhard’s argument against Kant? How close are Kant’s arguments in favour of a “new” philosophy to those of Du Châtelet?
See the Video LSS 2018 Émilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749
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Époque Émilienne. Philosophy and Science in the Age of Emilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749 (coming soon)
Époque Émilienne
Philosophy and Science
in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749).Editor: Ruth Edith Hagengruber
Ruth E Hagengruber: The Hidden Source. Emilie Du Châtelet and the Transcendental Turn.
Katherine Dunlop: The Significance of Du Châtelet’s Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces
Clara Carus: Du Châtelet’s Contribution to the Concept of Time. History of Philosophy between Leibniz and Kant
Andrea Reichenberger: The Reception of Émilie Du Châtelet in the German Enlightenment in the Light of the Controversy over Monads
Hanns-Peter Neumann: Émilie du Châtelet in the Correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph of Manteuffel
Gianni Paganini: Émilie Du Châtelet’s Epistemology of Hypotheses.
Dieter Suisky: Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions physiques Considered as a Philosophy of Science-Based on the History of Science
Hartmut Hecht: Three French Newtonians and their Leibniz Background
Ansgar Lyssi: Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World – Émilie Du Châtelet on Causation
Fritz Nagel: “Les corps agissent sur la lumière.” Émilie Du Châtelet’s Deliberations on the Nature of Light in her Essai sur l’optique.
Michel Toulmonde: Émilie Du Châtelet and Newton’s Principia
George E. Smith with the assistance of Jeanne-Marie Musca: Du Châtelet’s Commentary on Newton’s Principia: An Assessment
Sarah Hutton: Émilie Du Chatelet and Italy. The Italian translation of her Institutions physiques and the issue of forces vives.
Romana Bassi: Du Châtelet in Italy: Who was behind Du Châtelet’s Italian Translation?
Gabor Boros: Scientia Sexualis: Voltaire, La Mettrie and Émilie Du Châtelet on Love
Waltraud Ernst: Natural Pleasure: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis’s Contribution to a Materialist Conception of the Erotic
Anne Thomson: Émilie Du Châtelet and La Mettrie
Christophe Martin: From one marquise to another. Mme Du Châtelet and Fontenelle’s Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds.’
Keiko Kawashima: “Anonymity and Ambition”: Émilie Du Châtelet’s Dissertation du feu (1744)
Andreas Blank: Self-Deception and Illusions of Esteem: Contextualizing Châtelet’s Challenge
Alexsandra Gieralt: The Influence of Epicurean thought on Mme Du Châtelet’s Discours sur le Bonheur
Maria Susana Seguin: Madame Du Châtelet, clandestine philosopher.
Bertram Schwarzbach: Mme Du Châtelet, a heterodox philosopher reads the Bible
Natalia Speranskaja: Émilie Du Châtelet’s manuscripts preserved at the National Library of Russia
Ronald Smelzer: Printing Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique: The Variant Texts
Ruth E Hagengruber 2021 Époque Émilienne. Springer, Cham. Forthcoming.
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Activities: Libori Summer School (2018)
Areins Pelayo Leibniz “Tentamen Anagogicum” Libori Summer School 2018
Lisa Benossi Lambert Kant Libori Summerschool 2018 presentation
Hartmut Hecht Leibniz on SpaceTime Libori Summer School 2018_2
Suisky Du Châtelet and Kant – the Predecessors Libori-Summer School-2018
Reichenberger Andrea Christian Wolff_Space and Time Libori Summer School 2018
Hagengruber Du Châtelet and the Eberhard Kant Controversy Libori Summer School 2018
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Émilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung (2019)
Hagengruber Hecht (Hrs): Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung, Springer VS Wiesbaden 2019.
Hagengruber RE: Émilie Du Châtelet zwischen Leibniz und Kant. Die Eberhard Kant Kontroverse, in: Hagengruber Hecht (ed.)Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung, 173-195.
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