Emilie Du Châtelet's Theoretical Philosophy in Context

Du Châtelet’s Theoretical Philosophy in Context

21 – 22 March 2025

University College Dublin

School of Philosophy

Newman Building

5th Floor, Room D520

Programme

21 March 2025

09.15h –          Welcome: Coffee and Tea

09.30h

09.30h –          Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn)

10.15h             Metaphysical Foundations of Physics:Analyzing Substance and Essence in Du Châtelet's Institutions

10.30h –          Christian Henkel (UCD)

11.15h             Top-down and bottom-up? Du Châtelet’s Account of Laws of Nature

11.30h –          Jeff Mc Donough (Harvard)

12.30h             Time for Du Châtelet

Lunch Break

14.00h –          Michael Veldman (Duke)

14.45h             The‘Two Keys of Physics’. Calculation and Experiment in Du Châtelet’s Conception of Hypotheses

15.00h –          Areins Pelayo (Grand Valley)

15.45h             Du Châtelet on Newton’s Method. The Cases of Universal Gravity and Geodesy

16.00h –          François Duchesneau (Montréal)

17.00h         Du Châtelet’s Concept of Vis Viva

Programme

22 March 2025

10.15h –          Coffee and Tea

10.30h

10.30h –          Aurora Yu (Chapel Hill/Princeton)

11.15h             The Hybrid Objectivist–Subjectivist Viewof Du Châtelet’s Principle of Sufficient Reason

11.30h –          Justin Steinberg (Cornell)

12.15h             Disambiguating the Principle of Sufficient Reason n Émilie Du Châtelet’s    Foundations of Physics

Lunch Break

13.45h –          Jan Forsman (Tampere/Iowa City)

14.30h             Metaphysics Under a Watchful Eye Émilie Du Châtelet's "On Freedom" and Voltaire's Traité de Metaphysique

14.45h –          Karen Detlefsen (UPenn)

15.45h             Emilie Du Châtelet on Human Nature, Virtue, and Vice

16.00h –          Discussion/Round Table

16.45h

This event is sponsored by the Irish Research Council; the Mind Association; and supported by UCD – School of Philosophy.