[spsp-members] CfP: 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
Joshua Eisenthal via spsp-members
Submissions are invited for the 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of
Physics.
*Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900*
*Deadline: October 10, 2025*
Submissions are invited on the writings of women in the 18th and 19th 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.
The winner will receive $1000 and an invitation to have their paper
considered for publication in *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science*.
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.
The deadline for submissions is *October 1, 2025* (midnight GMT). For
more details of the prize and of submission requirements, see below.
The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is supported by Duke
University and *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science*.
*Committee*
The members of this year’s prize committee are:
- 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
- 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
- Marcy Lascano. Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas
- Andrew Janiak. Professor of Philosophy, Duke University
- Emily Thomas. Professor of Philosphy, Durham University
- Jennifer Whyte. Postdoctoral Associate in Philosophy, Duke University
*Submission requirements*
- Submissions must be in English
- Submissions must be prepared for blind review
- Submissions must be no longer than 10,000 words in length, including
footnotes and references
- Submitted work must be unpublished and must not be under consideration
for publication
The submission portal can be found here: https://www.duchateletprize.org.
If you have questions, please contact Katherine Brading (
katherin...@duke.edu).
*More information about the prize*
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 *Studies*. 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.
Submissions are considered under blind review. Should a possible conflict
of interest be recognized, committee members are recused accordingly.
*2024: no prize awarded*
*2023 Winner: Marta Bielinska and Caspar Jacobs “A Philosophical
Introduction to Hidden Symmetries in Physics”*
Topic: Laws and symmetries in the practice of physics
Committee: Elena Castellani, Nina Emery, Bas van Fraassen, Marc Lange, with
input from Nancy Cartwright
*2022 Winner: Ovidiu Babeș “Mixed Mathematics and Metaphysical Physics:
Descartes and the Mechanics of the Flow of Water”*
Topic: Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics
Committee: Roger Ariew, Dan Garber, Dana Jalobeanu, Alison Peterman, and
Sophie Roux
*2021 Winners: Jamee Elder “The ‘Direct Detection’ of Gravitational
Waves”, **Studies in History and Philosophy of Science *110 1-12,
2025, and* Miguel
Ohnesorge “Pluralizing Measurement: Physical Geodesy's Measurement Problem
and its Resolution”, **Studies in History and Philosophy of Science *96
51-67, 2022*.*
Topic: Measurement practices in the physical sciences: correlation,
calibration and stabilization
Committee: Alisa Bokulich, Hasok Chang, Daniel Mitchell, and Wendy Parker
*2020 Winner: Joshua Eisenthal “Hertz’s Mechanics and a unitary notion
of force”*, *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science* Part A 90
226-234, 2021.
Topic: Mathematics as a tool of conceptual innovation in physical theory
and/or experiment, 1780-1890.
Committee: Katherine Brading, Janet Folina, Doreen Fraser, Lydia Patton and
Sheldon Smith
*2019 Winner: Adwait Parker “Newton on Active and Passive Quantities of
Matter”*, *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science* Part A 84 1-11,
2020.
Topic: How the parts of matter act on one another, as that issue stood at
any time in the period 1680-1780
Committee: Katherine Brading, Mary Domski, Andrew Janiak, Chris Smeenk,
George Smith
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