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The Call for Submissions for the 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is now live , with a deadline of September 1. The topic is Newton's Principia . This year marks the 300 th anniversary of the third edition of Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica . To celebrate this, we invite submissions on any philosophy of physics topic arising from the Principia and its reception. As is well known, Newton’s Principia immediately gave rise to intense phi

What is the best method for doing physics, and what is the epistemic status of the resulting theoretical claims? I read Du Châtelet’s account of scientific method as a response to “Pemberton’s Challenge,” which asks how we should navigate between, on the one hand, speculative systems whose claims about the natural world lack adequate justification to count as knowledge (which Pemberton attributed to the Cartesians), and on the other making such strict demands that little or n

My paper "Du Châtelet on the metaphysics and epistemology of time" just came out in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy . Download it here . Abstract: Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics contains important interventions in the 18 th century debates over the metaphysics and epistemology time. At the heart of her view, I argue, is an analysis of temporal experience that rests on our ability to represent pluralities of non-coexisting things. The upshot is an acc

Submissions are invited on the writings of women in the 18th and 19th centuries pertaining to physics. The topic should be construed...