Clara Carus
Research Interests: I am specialized on Early Modern Philosophy with a particular focus on Émilie Du Châtelet, Leibniz, Wolff and Kant. I work on metaphysics, in particular on the principles of knowledge (PC and PSR) and the concepts of time and space.
Reason for Harvard Visit: I am an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and will be working on a book entitled "Émilie Du Châtelet epistemological approach to space and time".
I studied in Freiburg, Oxford and Harvard and gained my PhD summa cum laude in Freiburg in 2018 with a book on Heidegger and Kant concerning the concept of time. From 2018-2020 I was a postdoc at Harvard University with a project on the exclusion of the senses from the root of scientific knowledge in the early modern rationalists. From 2020-2022 I was Assistant Professor at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists where I founded New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy and worked with Jeffrey McDonough on the project "Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff - Similarities and Differences". In 2023 I was Associate Faculty and Postoc at the University of Oxford with a book project on the PSR in Du Châtelet. Since October 2023 I have been head of a DFG research project on Du Châtelet's theory of hypotheses in relation to the principles of knowledge, based at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn. Currently, I am completing a monograph on Émilie Du Châtelet's Metaphysics.