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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The winners of the 2023 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics are: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marta Bielinska and Caspar Jacobs
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">for their paper “A Philosophical Introduction to Hidden Symmetries in Physics” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Congratulations Marta and Caspar!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Marta’s and Caspar’s paper investigates examples of so-called “hidden symmetries”, widely used in physics, arguing that such symmetries pose new challenges for philosophical
accounts of symmetries and for “symmetry-to-reality” inferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Marta is currently a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. Before this, she completed, also at the University of Oxford, the MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics
(2022) with a dissertation on hidden symmetries, and the BPhil in Philosophy (2021) with a dissertation on spacetime orientability. In addition to her work on foundations of spacetime, she is also interested in philosophical accounts of laws of nature and
scientific practice, as well as contemporary ontology.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Caspar is currently a university lecturer at Leiden University. He defended his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2021 with a dissertation on the interpretation of symmetries
in physics. In addition to his work on symmetries, Caspar is also interested in the metaphysics of quantities and early modern history and philosophy of science, especially the work of Du Châtelet.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The topic of this year’s prize was
<b>Laws and symmetries in the practice of physics. </b>This year marks the 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the publication of Nancy Cartwright’s highly influential book,
<i>How the Laws of Physics Lie</i>. In honor of this, we invited submissions addressing the ways laws and symmetries are deployed in the practice of doing physics: in experiment, in theory, and in the interplay between them. The scope was intended to be broad,
encompassing the variety of theoretical, practical, and explanatory roles that laws and symmetries play in physics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The committee was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elena Castellani, Professor in Philosophy of Science, University of Florence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nina Emery, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bas van Fraassen, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, and McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Princeton University<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marc Lange, Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">with input from Nancy Cartwright.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A <a href="https://duke.box.com/s/8vj8dgs9guac38w7tdpmtlh9k34ovulr">
workshop</a> honoring this year’s prize winner, and including talks by members of the committee, will be held at Duke University on November 30<sup>th</sup> – December 1<sup>st</sup>, 2023.
<a href="https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a61ZNypSkeYLv5s">Registration</a> for the workshop is now open. Please register by November 16th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information about the prize and the associated workshop, please contact Katherine Brading (<a href="mailto:katherine.brading@duke.edu" title="mailto:katherine.brading@duke.edu">katherine.brading@duke.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">About the prize</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><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>2022 Winner: Ovidiu Babeș “Mixed Mathematics and Metaphysical Physics: Descartes and the Mechanics of the Flow of Water” <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topic: “Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics”, in honor of the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Dan Garber’s highly influential book of that title.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Committee: Roger Ariew, Dan Garber, Dana Jalobeanu, Alison Peterman, and Sophie Roux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2021 Winners: Jamee Elder “The ‘Direct Detection’ of Gravitational Waves” </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and<b> Miguel Ohnesorge “Pluralizing Measurement:
Physical Geodesy's Measurement Problem and its Resolution”</b> <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science</i> 96, 51–67. 2022.<b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topic: Measurement practices in the physical sciences: correlation, calibration and stabilization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Committee: Alisa Bokulich, Hasok Chang, Daniel Mitchell, and Wendy Parker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2020 Winner: Joshua Eisenthal “Hertz’s <i>Mechanics</i> and a unitary notion of force”</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, <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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">________________________________<br>
Dr. Katherine Brading<br>
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Duke University<br>
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Durham, NC 27708<br>
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