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May 10, 2019
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Du Châtelet at the BSHP

I heard there was a great session at this year's British Society for the History of Philosophy meeting: Symposium: Émilie Du Châtelet’s F...

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Katherine Brading

May 10, 2019
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Pablo at the Max Planck

Congratulations to Pablo Ruiz de Olano on his election to the Steering Committee of the newly founded Max Planck PostdocNet.

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Katherine Brading

Mar 25, 2019
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Inaugural Du Châtelet Prize winner

Congratulations to Adwait Parker, winner of the 2019 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Adwait receives this award for his paper...

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Katherine Brading

Dec 17, 2018
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My book on Du Châtelet is out

My book on Émilie Du Châtelet and the foundations of physical science, published by Routledge, is out now, available direct from Routledg...

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Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics

Katherine Brading

Dec 5, 2018
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Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics

Duke University is pleased to announce the Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics, an annual award that celebrates excellence in phil...

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Katherine Brading

Dec 5, 2018
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Early Modern Women in Metaphysics

Emily Thomas's edited volume Early Modern Women in Metaphysics is out now, published by Cambridge University Press. For a review, and an ...

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Katherine Brading

Sep 6, 2018
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100 years of Noether's theorems

In 1918, Emmy Noether published a paper containing a result that physicists know and love, by which they connect symmetries to conserved ...

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Lisa Shapiro wins Elisabeth of Bohemia prize

Katherine Brading

Jun 1, 2018
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Lisa Shapiro wins Elisabeth of Bohemia prize

Congratulations to Lisa Shapiro, winner of the first Ulrike Detmers Elisabeth of Bohemia and Herford Prize, awarded for outstanding work ...

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Katherine Brading

Apr 18, 2018
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Du Châtelet conference next week

April 26-28, 2018, Notre Dame hosts a conference on the philosophy of Émilie Du Châtelet, celebrating the completion of the English trans...

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Workshop: Mechanics and matter theory in the Enlightenment

Katherine Brading

Mar 22, 2018
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Workshop: Mechanics and matter theory in the Enlightenment

UPDATE (Dec 2018): Thank you to everyone who made this such an energetic, compelling, and inspiring few days. March 22, 2018: Marius Stan...

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Katherine Brading

Mar 22, 2018
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Pablo Ruiz de Olano on Symmetries

Pablo's paper "Intimate Connections" is now published in Philosophy of Science (84(5): 1275-1288). This paper investigates Wigner's claim...

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Katherine Brading

Jan 17, 2018
1 min

Congratulations Pablo!

Congratulations to Pablo Ruiz de Olano, who has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History and Philos...

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Katherine Brading

Oct 1, 2017
1 min

New Du Châtelet chapters available

New English translations of chapters 8, 12 and 19 of Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics are now available here. Thanks to all the team,...

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