[PhilPhys] Call for Submissions: 2022 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics

[Katherine Brading]

Submissions are invited for the 2022 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics

The topic for this year’s prize is “Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics”, in honor of the 30th anniversary of Dan Garber’s highly influential book of that title

Deadine: October 20th

Submissions are invited on any topic relating to Descartes’s physics, from the details of his physics to issues in the epistemology, methodology, or metaphysics of his physics. Authors are encouraged to consider themes arising in Dan Garber’s 1992 Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics, or in the literature on Descartes’s physics that has developed since. The scope of the prize includes the reception of Descartes’s physics, and we welcome submissions that incorporate previously under-studied figures who engaged with Descartes’s physics during its reception in ensuing centuries.

The winner will receive $1000, an invitation to participate in a workshop to be held at Duke University (provisionally scheduled for March 28th-29th, 2023), and an invitation to have their paper considered for publication in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. The prize is open to graduate students, and to scholars within 5 years of PhD as of the submission deadline. Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words.

The deadline for submissions is October 20th, 2022 (midnight GMT). For more details of the prize and of submission requirements, see below.

The members of this year’s prize committee are:

  *   Roger Ariew (Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida)
  *   Dan Garber (A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
  *   Dana Jalobeanu (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, and Director of the ICUB-Humanities division of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest)
  *   Alison Peterman (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester)
  *   Sophie Roux (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, École normale supérieure, Paris)

The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is supported by Duke University in collaboration with Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

Submission requirements:

  *   Submissions must be in English
  *   Submissions should be prepared for blind review
  *   Submissions should be no longer than 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and references

·                     Submitted work should be unpublished and should not be under consideration for publication

For details of the submission process, and for any other questions, please contact Katherine Brading (katherine.brading at duke.edu<mailto:katherine.brading at duke.edu>).

More information about the prize

The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics celebrates excellence in philosophy of physics and promotes breadth across the field both historically and philosophically. Each year, a prize committee of senior scholars in the field invites submissions on a particular topic. The prize winner receives feedback and support from the committee, and the paper is considered for publication in Studies. The goals of the prize are to support young scholars working in philosophy of physics, to strengthen the historical and philosophical breadth of the field, and to promote some of the very best work being done by students and junior scholars.

Submissions are considered under blind review. Whenever a possible conflict of interest is recognized, committee members are recused accordingly.

2021 Winners: Jamee Elder “The ‘Direct Detection’ of Gravitational Waves” and Miguel Ohnesorge “Pluralizing Measurement: Physical Geodesy's Measurement Problem and its Resolution”
Topic: Measurement practices in the physical sciences: correlation, calibration and stabilization
Committee: Alisa Bokulich, Hasok Chang, Daniel Mitchell, and Wendy Parker

2020 Winner: Joshua Eisenthal “Hertz’s Mechanics and a unitary notion of force”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 90 226-234. 2021.
Topic: Mathematics as a tool of conceptual innovation in physical theory and/or experiment, 1780-1890.
Committee: Katherine Brading, Janet Folina, Doreen Fraser, Lydia Patton and Sheldon Smith

2019 Winner: Adwait Parker “Newton on Active and Passive Quantities of Matter”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 84 1-11. 2020.
Topic: “How the parts of matter act on one another, as that issue stood at any time in the period 1680-1780”
Committee: Katherine Brading, Mary Domski, Andrew Janiak, Chris Smeenk, George Smith


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