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Kant’s Transition Project and its debt to Émilie Du Châtelet

De Bianchi, Silvia (2024) Kant’s Transition Project and its debt to Émilie 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the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science to Physics that can constitute Emilie du Chatelet’s legacy for Kant’s unpublished project.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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De Bianchi, Silviasilvia.debianchi@unimi.it
Additional Information: To appear in “Du Châtelet and Kant: Copernican Turns”, 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: 22 Feb 2024 02:03
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2024 02:03
Item ID: 23128
Subjects: General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Date: 19 February 2024
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23128

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