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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...

The topic for the 2024 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is: Physics in the writings of 19th century women. Submissions are...

Marius Stan's and my book, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (OUP) is out! We offer a new telling of the relationships between...

New versions of chapters 15 and 18 of Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics were uploaded today, containing minor revisions. Later...

Philosophy of Physics Volume 1 Issue 1 is now available, free and open to everyone. Browse the new issue here to see papers on a variety...

Qiu Lin's and my paper "Du Châtelet on absolute and relative motion" has been published and is available here. Our paper appears as...

The winners of the 2023 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics are: Marta Bielinska and Caspar Jacobs for their paper “A...

Congratulations and gratitude to Professor Jan-Willem van Holten on the publication of his translation of Du Châtelet's Institutions de...

Qiu has accepted a tenure-track position at Simon Fraser University. Congratulations to her! And she was recently featured in Science...

For the first time in all these years of working on Du Châtelet I finally got to touch a first edition of her Institutions. There is...

Congratulations to Ovidiu Babeș for his lecture on his prize-winning paper, “Mixed Mathematics and Metaphysical Physics: Descartes and...

Congratulations to Miguel Ohnesorge whose Du Châtelet Prize winning paper “Pluralising measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement...

Supported by members, open-access, broad in scope. I am excited to be one of the associate editors of this new journal, Philosophy of...

Duke Philosophy was well-represented at PSA 2022. The session on Du Châtelet organized by former Duke PhD student Qiu Lin (also including...

This year's Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics honors Dan Garber on the 30th anniversary of his influential book, Descartes's...

So happy to be welcoming Ásta, Wenjin Liu, and Reuben Stern to the Duke Philosophy Department. Exciting times ahead.

A big thank you to everyone who made HOPOS 2022 such a success. It was great to catch up with old friends and meet new people, in amongst...

Marius's and my book manuscript is coming along, we think we're on the last leg. I recently gave a talk in Oxford about the chapter on...

Hoorah for having events in person. April 7-9 we celebrated the 2020 (Josh Eisenthal) and 2021 (Jamee Elder and Miguel Ohnesorge) prize...