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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The winner of the 2022 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ovidiu Babeș</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for his paper “Mixed Mathematics and Metaphysical Physics: Descartes and the
Mechanics of the Flow of Water” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Congratulations Ovidiu!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ovidiu’s paper investigates the complex interplay between physics and mechanics in Descartes’ quantitative explanation of the flow of water, showing the creativity in Descartes’s
attempts to bridge the mechanical and the physical, and the difficulties that ensue for his natural philosophy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ovidiu is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije University Brussels, working on a project about <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/renew18__;!!OToaGQ!vrnAHGSbr8JnM8bS2PsEfIw-1AfpHrhJhdbgduiQrXxBhncir1AvpWyvcWEh4YOjCbH4PmgzJ9NMHUej0lnFg8lEFGQphbhO1unh$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/renew18__;!!OToaGQ!vrnAHGSbr8JnM8bS2PsEfIw-1AfpHrhJhdbgduiQrXxBhncir1AvpWyvcWEh4YOjCbH4PmgzJ9NMHUej0lnFg8lEFGQphbhO1unh$">I</a><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/renew18__;!!OToaGQ!vrnAHGSbr8JnM8bS2PsEfIw-1AfpHrhJhdbgduiQrXxBhncir1AvpWyvcWEh4YOjCbH4PmgzJ9NMHUej0lnFg8lEFGQphbhO1unh$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/renew18__;!!OToaGQ!vrnAHGSbr8JnM8bS2PsEfIw-1AfpHrhJhdbgduiQrXxBhncir1AvpWyvcWEh4YOjCbH4PmgzJ9NMHUej0lnFg8lEFGQphbhO1unh$">saac
Newton's reception in the 18th century</a>. He defended his PhD in 2022 at the University of Bucharest with a dissertation on Descartes and mixed mathematics. More generally, his research deals with early modern philosophy and science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The topic of this year’s prize was
<b>“Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics</b>”, in honor of the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Dan Garber’s highly influential book of that title. The committee was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Roger Ariew (Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dan Garber (A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alison Peterman (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sophie Roux (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, École normale supérieure, Paris)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A big thank you to the committee for all their work, and to all those who submitted such superb papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is supported by Duke University in collaboration with <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science</i>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A workshop honoring this year’s prize winner, and including talks by members of the committee, will be held at Duke University on March 28-29, 2023. Registration for this
workshop will open in the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">About the prize</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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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 <i>Studies</i>. 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.<br>
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<b>2021 Winners: Jamee Elder “The ‘Direct Detection’ of Gravitational Waves” </b>and<b> Miguel Ohnesorge “Pluralizing Measurement: Physical Geodesy's Measurement Problem and its Resolution”</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Topic: Measurement practices in the physical sciences: correlation, calibration and stabilization</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Committee: Alisa Bokulich, Hasok Chang, Daniel Mitchell, and Wendy Parker</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2020 Winner: Joshua Eisenthal “Hertz’s <i>Mechanics</i> and a unitary notion of force”</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">, <i>Studies
in History and Philosophy of Science</i> Part A 90 226-234. 2021.<br>
Topic: Mathematics as a tool of conceptual innovation in physical theory and/or experiment, 1780-1890.<br>
Committee: Katherine Brading, Janet Folina, Doreen Fraser, Lydia Patton and Sheldon Smith<br>
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<b>2019 Winner: Adwait Parker “Newton on Active and Passive Quantities of Matter”</b>, <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science</i> Part A 84 1-11. 2020.<br>
Topic: “How the parts of matter act on one another, as that issue stood at any time in the period 1680-1780”<br>
Committee: Katherine Brading, Mary Domski, Andrew Janiak, Chris Smeenk, George Smith</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information about the prize and the associated workshop, please contact
<span style="color:black">Katherine Brading (</span></span><a href="mailto:katherine.brading@duke.edu" title="mailto:katherine.brading@duke.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0078D4">katherine.brading@duke.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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