Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics

A Conference Celebrating the Complete English Translation

E Milie Du Cha Telet

April 26th–28th, 2018
McKenna Hall, Notre Dame Conference Center

In 2009, Isabelle Bour and Judith Zinsser published a partial translation of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics. Since 2014, faculty and students at the University of Notre Dame have worked to complete the translation (see www.kbrading.org/du-chatelet). This conference celebrates the completion of the project.

The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. Participants include:

Katherine Brading
Karen Detlefsen
Lisa Downing
Jamee Elder
Ashton Green
Ruth Hagengruber
John Hanson
Sarah Hutton
Andrew Janiak
Marcy Lascano
Christia Mercer
Lauren Montes
Andrea Reichenberger
Annelise Rey
Anne Seul
Phil Sloan
George Smith
Monica Solomon
Marius Stan
Aaron Wells
Judith Zinsser

Sponsors:

History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Henkels Lecture Series
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Notre Dame Research