Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Christian Henkel on the publication of his article on ‘The Need for Reform of #Metaphysics in Early Modern Germany and the Impact of Scientific Societies’ in Perspectives on Science. #PhilPublication #EarlyModernPhilosophy direct.mit.edu/posc/article...

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Applications are still open for an ERC-funded Research Associate position in the History of Philosophy at #UCD School of #Philosophy. Closing date: midday (Irish time), Monday 15 September. #PhilJobs #EarlyModernPhilosophy #MoralPhilosophy #BMoral

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My School is hiring for a 0.4 FTE Research Administrator for the ERC #BMoral: New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the 18th Century (c. 1690–1800) project, among other things. Further details and a link to applications below. #philosophy #EarlyModernPhilosophy #MoralPhilosophy

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Applications are invited for a 36-month fixed-term position of Lecturer/Assistant Professor in #Philosophy with specialism in #EarlyModernPhilosophy, philosophy of social science, and #metaphysics. Closing date: 1st July. For full details, see: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... #PhilJobs #PhilSky
Two exciting events coming up at #UCD #Philosophy next week… #PhilSky 1. UCD–Harvard Workshop on #Metaphysics in #EarlyModernPhilosophy on Tuesday 18 March: www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n... 2. A workshop on Émilie Du Châtelet's Theoretical Philosophy in Context, 21–22 March: www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...

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@philosophy @philosophie

#PhilosophyOfPhysics
#space
#EarlyModernPhilosophy

wrt the hiatus in
understanding the objectivity of physical space

by

#Descartes
#Newton

on one side,

on the other - in a way all - say of

#Spinoza
#Leibniz
#duChatelet
#Kant

there's an imop particularly interesting preprint by Aaron Wells (uni paderborn) on Émilie du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects, viz.

https://philarchive.org/rec/
WELINA-2

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

The #historians have #histodons so #philosophers #philosophy community, please step up your game!
Though I will note that the “~dons” gives me old school Oxbridge Dons vibes (and not in a good way iykwim)

We can worry about #historyofscience #philosophyofscience #historyandphilosophyofscience #earlymodernphilosophy distinctions later.

For now I just want to find the #academicmastodon #AcademicFedi first