De Bianchi, Silvia (2024) Kant’s Transition Project and its debt to Emilie Du Châtelet. [Preprint]

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In this Chapter, I shall identify relevant aspects in the Transition from the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science to Physics that can constitute Emilie du Chatelet’s legacy for Kant’s unpublished project. I shall show how Kant’s late view of the aether – the hypostatized space understood as necessary postulate, hides a deeper meaning as explanation of the first motion of universal matter, by appealing to an original living force of impact, thereby echoing not only his pre-critical writings, but also Du Châtelet’s work. More interestingly, this contribution shows that Du Châtelet exerted a greater impact on Kant’s late theory of physical bodies than generally acknowledged.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID De Bianchi, Silvia silvia.debianchi@unimi.it
Additional Information:	To appear in “Du Châtelet and Kant. The Copernican Turn”, ed. by. R. E. Hagengruber and A. Wells, Springer, Cham (2024).
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Depositing User:	Prof. Silvia De Bianchi
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2024 17:06
Last Modified:	21 Feb 2024 17:06
Item ID:	23110
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Date:	19 February 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23110

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