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.
- Hagengruber Writings on Du Châtelet
Hagengruber, R. E. The Hidden Source. Emilie Du Châtelet and the Transcendental Turn, In: R. E. Hagengruber (ed.) Époque Émilienne. Philosophy and Science in the Age of Emilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749. Springer forthcoming.
Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)
R.E. Hagengruber, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Cham, 2021.Review Hagengruber Le Rue Émilie Du Châtelet Philosophe
R. Hagengruber, H-France Net 158 (2020).Relocating Women in the History of Philosophy and Science. Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), Laura Bassi (1711-1778), and Luise Gottsched (1713-1762) in Brucker’s Pinacotheca
R. Hagengruber, Bruniana & Campanelliana Suppl XLIII (2019).Hagengruber, R. E. Émilie Du Châtelet zwischen Leibniz und Kant. Du Châtelet in der Eberhard-Kant-Kontroverse, In R. Hagengruber & H. Hecht (Eds.), Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung.Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; Imprint: Springer VS (2019) S. 173–196.
Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung
R. Hagengruber, H. Hecht, eds., Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung, Springer, Wiesbaden, 2019.“If I Were King!” Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet’s Subtle Thoughts on Liberty
R. Hagengruber, in: J. Broad, K. Detlefsen (Eds.), Women and Liberty, Oxford University Press, Oxford; New York, 2017, pp. 195–205.Emilie du Châtelet, 1706–1749. Transformer of Metaphysics and Scientist
R. Hagengruber, The Mathematical Intelligencer (2016) 1–6Emilie du Châtelet and the Transformation of Metaphysics
R. Hagengruber, in: R. Hagengruber (Ed.), Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz Und Newton, Springer, New York, 2011, pp. 1–59.Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton
R. Hagengruber, ed., Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton, Springer, New York, 2011.Das Glück der Vernunft. Emilie Du Châtelet’s Reflexionen über die Moral
R. Hagengruber, in: R. Hagengruber, A. Rodrigues (Eds.), Von Diana zu Minerva. Philosophierende Aristokratinnen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts., Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 2011, pp. 111–113.Kölving, Ulla; Courcelle, Olivier. Émilie du Châtelet. Éclairages et documents nouveaux (Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2008)
R. Hagengruber, Francia-Recensio. Frühe Neuzeit – Revolution – Empire (1500–1815). 4 (2009).Gegen Rousseau – für die Physik. Gabrielle Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749). Das Leben einer Wissenschaftlerin im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
R. Hagengruber, Konsens 3 (2002) 27–30.Emilie du Châtelet an Maupertuis. Eine Metaphysik in Briefen
R. Hagengruber, in: H. Hecht (Ed.), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Eine Bilanz nach 300 Jahren, Spitz, Berlin, 1999, pp. 187–206.
- BBC World Forum A free-spirited physicist: Émilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749
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Ruth Hagengruber - 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
Including texts such as
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 / Fritz Nagel: “Les corps agissent sur la lumière.” Émilie Du Châtelet’s Deliberations on the Nature of Light in her Essai sur l’optique / 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 and A Conti. Du Châtelet’s Italian Translation / 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.’ / 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 and more. Coming soon.
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