The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet

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  2. English
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet

About this book

The first scholarly volume on Émilie Du Châtelet's philosophy highlights her novel contributions to metaphysics, philosophy of science, and ethics.

As an understudied figure in the history of early modern philosophy, this volume re-positions her thinking alongside philosophical predecessors like Leibniz, Newton, Wolff, and Voltaire, as well as considering her own influence in the decades and centuries after her death.

Established and emerging scholars of early modern philosophy cover all aspects of Du Châtelet's philosophical work including her metaphysical views on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, the Principle of Contradiction, and natural theology, as well as her writings on epistemology, space and time, philosophy of mathematics, freedom, imagination and happiness. By positioning Du Châtelet firmly within the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science, Fatema Amijee's edited volume contributes to the renewed scholarly attention on early modern women philosophers. Essential reading for students and scholars of early modern philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy, this go-to text on Du Châtelet marks a new era of scholarly attention for a formerly neglected figure.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2026
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781350343061
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Analytic Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. CONTENTS
  7. CONTRIBUTORS
  8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  9. Introduction
  10. Metaphysical Themes
  11. CHAPTER ONE Émilie Du Châtelet’s Principle of Contradiction
  12. CHAPTER TWO Émilie Du Châtelet’s ‘On Liberty’ and the Influence of Locke
  13. CHAPTER THREE Du Châtelet’s Epistemology of Space
  14. CHAPTER FOUR Émilie Du Châtelet against Spatial Metaphysics
  15. Scientific Themes
  16. CHAPTER FIVE Du Châtelet’s Philosophy of Mathematics
  17. CHAPTER SIX Blazing: Du Châtelet as Central to the First Paradigm in Newtonian Mechanics
  18. CHAPTER SEVEN Émilie Du Châtelet and Isaac Newton
  19. CHAPTER EIGHT Experimenting with Metaphysics: Du Chatelet’s Dissertation on Fire
  20. Religious Themes
  21. CHAPTER NINE The Primacy of Reason: Contextualizing Du Châtelet’s Examens de la Bible
  22. CHAPTER TEN Du Châtelet’s First Cosmological Argument
  23. INDEX

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