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Author:   Ruth Edith Hagengruber
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Volume:   11
Weight:   1.010kg
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9783030899202

ISBN 10:   3030899209
Pages:   547
Publication Date:   02 July 2022
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Format:   Hardback
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Introduction.- Part 1: Du Chatelet Between Leibniz and Kant.- Chapter 1. Emilie Du Chatelet Between Leibniz and Kant. Eberhard and the Transcendental Turn (Ruth Hagengruber).- Chapter 2. The Significance of Du Chatelet's Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces (Katherine Dunlop).- Chapter 3. Du Chatelet's Contribution to the Concept of Time. History of Philosophy between Leibniz and Kant (Clara Carus).- Chapter 4. The Reception of Emilie Du Chatelet in the German Enlightenment in the Light of the Controversy over Monads (Andrea Reichenberger).- Chapter 5. Emilie du Chatelet in the Correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph of Manteuffel (Hanns-Peter Neumann).- Part 2:Methodical Questions: Du Chatelet Between Leibniz and Newton.- Chapter 6. Three French Newtonians and their Leibniz Background (Hartmut Hecht).- Chapter 7. Les corps agissent sur la lumiere. Emilie Du Chatelet's Deliberations on the Nature of Light in her Essai sur l'optique (Fritz Nagel).- Chapter 8. Emilie Du Chatelet's Epistemology of Hypotheses (Gianni Paganini).- Chapter 9. Emilie Du Chatelet's Institutions physiques considered as a philosophy of science based on the history of science (Dieter Suisky).- Chapter 10. Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World - Emilie Du Chatelet on Causation (Ansgar Lyssi).- Chapter 11. Du Chatelet on Newtonian Attraction (Marco Storni).- Part 3: Du Chatelet and Newton.- Chapter 12. Making Scientific Theories: Emilie Du Chatelet's Circle and the Newtonian Revolution (Robyn Arianrhod).- Chapter 13. Emilie Du Chatelet and Newton's Principia (Michel Toulmonde).- Chapter 14. Du Chatelet's Commentary on Newton's Principia: An Assessment (George Smith).- Part 4: Du Chatelet in Italy.- Chapter 15. Emilie Du Chatelet and Italy. The Italian translation of Emilie Du Chatelet's Institutions physiques in intellectual context (Sarah Hutton).- Chapter 16. Du Chatelet in Italy: Who was behind Du Chatelet's Italian Translation? (Romana Bassi).- Part 5: Du Chatelet in France.- Chapter 17. Anonymity and Ambition : Emilie Du Chatelet's Dissertation du feu (1744) (Keiko Kawashima).- Chapter 18. D'une marquise l'autre. Mme Du Chatelet et les Enretiens sur la pluralite des mondes de Fontenelle (Christophe Martin).- Chapter 19. Scientia Sexualis: Voltaire, La Mettrie and Emilie Du Chatelet on Love (Gabor Boros).- Chapter 20. Emilie Du Chatelet and La Mettrie (Anne Thomson).- Chapter 21. Natural Pleasure: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis's Contribution to a Materialist Conception of the Erotic (Waltraud Ernst).- Chapter 22. The Influence of Epicurean thought on Mme Du Chatelet's Discours sur le Bonheur (Alexsandra Gierault).- Chapter 23. Self-Deception and Illusions of Esteem: Contextualizing Chatelet's Challenge (Andreas Blank).- Chapter 24. Mme Du Chatelet, Clandestine Philosopher (Susan 24. Seguin).- Chapter 25. Mme Du Chatelet, a heterodox philosopher reads the Bible (Bertram Schwarzbach).- Part 6: Du Chatelet: Manuscript and Editing History.- Chapter 26. Les manuscrits d'Emilie Du Chatelet conserves a la Bibliotheque nationale de Russie (Natalia Speranskaja).- Chapter 27. Printing Du Chatelet's Institutions de Physique: The Variant Texts (Ronald Smelzer).- List of abbreviations.

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Ruth Edith Hagengruber is Professor at Paderborn University, Chair of its Philosophy Department and Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. In 2006, she founded the Teaching and Research Area Eco Tech Gender and History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Since 2016 she has been the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists; since 2016 (German series) and 2018 she has been founder and co-editor of the Springer series Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences. She has been head of the first working group Women in the History of Philosophy of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Philosophie since 2017 and serves on several boards of journals. She has served as Vice President of the Deutsche Akademikerinnen Bund e.V. since 2019 and as elected secretary of the International Association of Women Philosophers IAPH e.V. (since 2021). She is Elected Member of the Leibniz-Sozietat der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (2019), Lifetime member of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy I-ACAP (2011) and served on the Advisory Board MCTS Munich Center for Technology in Society of the Technical University, Munich (2011-2019). In 2014, she received the Award Philosophy in the Media; in 2015 the Wiener-Schmidt-Award of the Society of Cybernetics and System Theory; in 2016 she won the fellowship for presenting women philosophers in digital teaching (Philosophy goes MOOC). Together with its sponsor, Ulrike Detmers, she awards the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize for outstanding achievements in the history of women philosophers. Beside publications in the philosophy of Information Science (2011, 2014), she contributes to the History of Women Philosophers: in 2011 she edited Emilie Du Chatelet between Leibniz and Newton, with Karin Green she edited The Monist (2015). In cooperation with Sarah Hutton, she edited the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on Women Philosophers from Renaissance to the Enlightenment (2019/2021). Emilie Du Chatelet und die deutsche Aufklarung, coedited with H. Hecht, was published in 2019 and in 2020 she published amongst numerous others the chapter The Stolen History, in the book Methodological Reflections on Women's Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy.

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