Époque Émilienne

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. ÉmilieDu 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

Ruth Edith Hagengruber is Professor at Paderborn University, Chair of its Philosophy Department and Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. In 2006, she founded the Teaching and Research Area Eco Tech Gender and History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Since 2016 she has been the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists; since 2016 (German series) and 2018 she has been founder and co-editor of the Springer series Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences. She has been head of the first working group Women in the History of Philosophy of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie since 2017 and serves on several boards of journals. She has served as Vice President of the Deutsche Akademikerinnen Bund e.V. since 2019 and as elected secretary of the International Association of Women Philosophers IAPH e.V. (since 2021). She is Elected Member of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (2019), Lifetime member of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy I-ACAP (2011) and served on the Advisory Board MCTS Munich Center for Technology in Society of the Technical University, Munich (2011-2019). In 2014, she received the Award Philosophy in the Media; in 2015 the Wiener-Schmidt-Award of the Society of Cybernetics and System Theory; in 2016 she won the fellowship for presenting women philosophers in digital teaching (Philosophy goes MOOC). Together with its sponsor, Ulrike Detmers, she awards the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize for outstanding achievements in the history of women philosophers. Beside publications in the philosophy of Information Science (2011, 2014), she contributes to the History of Women Philosophers: in 2011 she edited Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton, with Karin Green she edited The Monist (2015). In cooperation with Sarah Hutton, she edited the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on Women Philosophers from