Du Châtelet’s Relation to Leibniz and Wolff – Similarities and Differences

拟议的项目旨在促进并进一步详细研究杜夏特与莱布尼茨和沃尔夫的关系。杜夏特莱自己提到的莱布尼茨和沃尔夫主要指的是她的形而上学基础，因此她的作品的一个实质性方面，特别是从哲学的角度来看。该项目的总体目标是通过与莱布尼茨和沃尔夫的形而上学贡献相比较，分析她在内容和历史背景下的形而上学贡献，从而有助于系统地研究杜查泰莱在哲学史上的意义。为此，我们计划将著名的莱布尼茨学者杰弗里·麦克多诺作为墨卡托研究员带到帕德伯恩，以便将我们在女哲学家和女哲学家历史中心的艾米丽·杜·夏特莱的专业知识与他在莱布尼茨和沃尔夫方面的专业知识结合起来。我们计划通过在帕德伯恩举行的大型会议和哈佛哲学史研讨会，鼓励国际知名学者就该主题的许多方面进行进一步研究，杰弗里·麦克多诺将在项目期间将该研讨会带给帕德伯恩。该项目的最终目的是完成一本全面的收集卷，并提供详细的介绍。这本书将反映该项目对杜夏特莱与莱布尼茨和沃尔夫的关系的发现，以及对他们相似和不同之处的调查。因此，该项目将阐明杜夏泰莱分别从莱布尼茨和沃尔夫那里获得了什么，她与这些作者的不同之处，以及她与莱布尼茨和沃尔夫的关系必须在什么历史背景下看待。通过这一研究，杜夏特本人在她的形而上学开篇章节中的贡献将变得系统地明显。

The proposed project intends to foster and further detailed research on Du Châtelet’s relationship to Leibniz and Wolff. Du Châtelet’s own references to Leibniz and Wolff refer mainly to her metaphysical foundations and thus to a substantial aspect of her work, especially when seen from a philosophical perspective. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to a systematic investigation of Du Châtelet’s significance in the history of philosophy by analyzing her metaphysical contribution in comparison to Leibniz and Wolff; in its content and its historical context. To this end we plan to bring the renowned Leibniz scholar Jeffrey McDonough to Paderborn as a Mercator Fellow in order to unite our expertise on Émilie du Châtelet at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists with his expertise on Leibniz and Wolff. We are planning to encourage further research by internationally renowned scholars on many aspects of the theme through a large conference in Paderborn and through the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop, which Jeffrey McDonough will bring to Paderborn for the duration of the project. The project is intended to culminate in a comprehensive collected volume with a detailed introduction. The volume will reflect the project’s findings about Du Châtelet’s relationship to Leibniz and Wolff and the investigation of their similarities and differences. As a result, the project will elucidate what it is that Du Châtelet took on from Leibniz or Wolff respectively, where she differs from those authors, and in which historical context her relationship to Leibniz and Wolff has to be seen. Through this investigation Du Châtelet’s own contributions in the context of her metaphysical opening chapters will become systematically evident.