Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)

The present book contextualizes Du Châtelet's contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Époque Émilienne as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Châtelet's powerful philosophy and legacy. Du Châtelet was an outstanding figure in the era...

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Autor Corporativo:	SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores:	Hagengruber, Ruth Edith, editor (editor)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Cham : Springer International Publishing 2022.
Edición:	1st ed
Colección:	Springer eBooks. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, 11.
Acceso en línea:	Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:	https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47158402*spi

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

Époque Émilienne Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)

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