New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy

Clara Carus is head of the DFG-Research Project ＂The Relationship of the Theory of Hypotheses to the Principles of Knowledge in Émilie Du Châtelet＂ at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University. Previously, she was Associate Faculty at the University of Oxford working on a DAAD funded research project on Émilie Du Châtelet’s contribution to the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Early Modern period. From 2020-2022, she was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University. She is interested in systematic questions in the history of philosophy and is specialized on the Early Modern rationalists, especially Émilie Du Châtelet, Leibniz and Wolff. She has strong interests and has published in phenomenology, especially Heidegger, Kant and the integration of women philosophers into our picture of the history of philosophy. She is the founding member of New Voices at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, directed by Ruth Hagengruber.