Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff: Similarities and Differences

Clara Carus is Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. She studied in Freiburg, Oxford and Harvard and gained her PhD with a summa cum laude at Freiburg University. She led multiple research projects on Du Châtelet at Oxford, Paderborn and Harvard. She works in the history of philosophy and specializes in the Early Modern period (particularly Du Châtelet and Leibniz).

Jeffrey K. McDonough is a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, science, and religion in the early modern era. He has written numerous articles on early modern philosophy, and is the author of Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion and A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Physics and Philosophy.