Article ID: CBB015600367

Émilie du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique: a Leibnizian-Newtonian Synthesis? A methodological approach (2024)

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Abstract This paper seeks to show how historiographical categories that place philosophies within schools of thought entail accepting a high theoretical cost: the category circumscribes a general framework for interpretation, but at the same time conceals what makes a particular thought unique and sometimes original. If they are only Leibnizian or Newtonian, why give them a place in the corpus? In order to establish the limits and challenges of this categorisation, this paper coins the category of ‘Leibnizo-Newtonianism’, not in order to identify a paradoxical school of thought, but rather to question this reading of the history of philosophy. On the other hand, it proposes to use the analysis of epistemological practices (the relationship between hypothesis and experience, the status of principle etc.) to identify the problem Émilie du Châtelet set out to answer: how can one establish the certainty of our knowledge of nature?

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Authors & Contributors
Minazzi, Fabio
Aragona, Massimiliano
Couzinet, Marie-Dominique
Ducheyne, Steffen
Epple, Moritz
Garber, Daniel
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Indian Journal of History of Science
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
History of Psychiatry
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Mimesis
Cambridge University Press
Akademie-Verlag
Franco Angeli
MIT Press
University of Alabama Press
Concepts
Methodology
Philosophy
Epistemology
Philosophy of science
History of philosophy of science
Certainty; uncertainty
People
Descartes, René
Newton, Isaac
Carnap, Rudolf
Fleck, Ludwik
Galilei, Galileo
Jaspers, Karl
Time Periods
17th century
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
18th century
19th century
Places
Italy
India
Europe
Institutions
School of Milan
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