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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions are invited for the 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Deadline: October 10, 2025<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions are invited on the writings of women in the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries pertaining to physics. The topic should be construed broadly to include: any genre in which the women were writing; “physics” as understood
then and/or now; both experimental and theoretical physics; and physics in relation to other areas of inquiry. For example, such writings may engage with concepts, theories, practices, foundations, or methods; with the nature and scope of physics itself; or
with philosophy of science more generally, as it applies to physics. Figures of interest include Laura Bassi, Emilie Du Châtelet, Sophie Germain, Caroline Herschel, Jane Marcet, Maria Mitchell, Christina Roccati, Mary Somerville, and Victoria Welby among others,
and we welcome submissions that bring to light women who are perhaps less familiar in the history and philosophy of physics. Submissions may engage with the work of a single figure or multiple figures.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The winner will receive $1000 and an invitation to have their paper considered for publication in <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science</i>. 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.<br>
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The deadline for submissions is <b>October 10, 2025</b> (midnight GMT). For more details of the prize and of submission requirements, see below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is supported by Duke University and <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Committee</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The members of this year’s prize committee are: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Joshua Eisenthal. Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology and Editor at the Einstein Papers Project; from September 1, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Washington; and 2020 Du Châtelet Prize winner<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Samuel C. Fletcher. Professor of Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford; Tutor in Philosophy, Merton College, Oxford; Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science; External Fellow, Munich
Center for Mathematical Philosophy<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Andrew Janiak. Professor of Philosophy, Duke University<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Marcy Lascano. Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Emily Thomas. Professor of Philosphy, Durham University<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Jennifer Whyte. Postdoctoral Associate in Philosophy, Duke University<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission requirements<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Submissions must be in English<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Submissions must be prepared for blind review<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Submissions must be no longer than 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and references<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Submitted work must be unpublished and must not be under consideration for publication<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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The submission portal can be found here: <a href="https://www.duchateletprize.org">
https://www.duchateletprize.org</a>. If you have questions, please contact Katherine Brading (<a href="mailto:katherine.brading@duke.edu">katherine.brading@duke.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>More information about the prize</b><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 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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Submissions are considered under blind review. Should a possible conflict of interest be recognized, committee members are recused accordingly.<br>
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<b>2024: no prize awarded<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2023 Winner: Marta Bielinska and Caspar Jacobs “A Philosophical Introduction to Hidden Symmetries in Physics”</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topic: Laws and symmetries in the practice of physics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Committee: Elena Castellani, Nina Emery, Bas van Fraassen, Marc Lange, with input from Nancy Cartwright<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2022 Winner: Ovidiu Babeș “Mixed Mathematics and Metaphysical Physics: Descartes and the Mechanics of the Flow of Water”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topic: Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Committee: Roger Ariew, Dan Garber, Dana Jalobeanu, Alison Peterman, and Sophie Roux<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2021 Winners: Jamee Elder “The ‘Direct Detection’ of Gravitational Waves”,
</b><i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science </i>110 1-12, 2025,<b> </b>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<i>.</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topic: Measurement practices in the physical sciences: correlation, calibration and stabilization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Committee: Alisa Bokulich, Hasok Chang, Daniel Mitchell, and Wendy Parker<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2020 Winner: Joshua Eisenthal “Hertz’s <i>Mechanics</i> and a unitary notion of force”</b>,
<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></p>
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Dr. Katherine Brading<br>
Professor, Department of Philosophy<br>
Duke University<br>
201 West Duke Building, Campus Box 90743<br>
Durham, NC 27708<br>
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