Ursula Winter

Ursula Winter (born before 1972) is a German lecturer with a doctorate in French philology at Institute I for Philosophy, the History of Literature, Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin .

One of her areas of specialization is research on Denis Diderot , in particular his relationship to natural philosophy, anthropology and epistemology, as well as the consequences of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers on the paradigm shift in the scientific, technical and philosophical discourse of the 18th century. Furthermore, she deals with the philosophy of the French Enlightenment and the intellectual influence of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on French philosophy and its reception history.

Publications (selection)

• The materialism at Diderot. Librairie Droz, Genève 1972, ISBN 2-600-03851-5 .
• Science methodology and morals. In: Dietrich Harth, Martin Raether (Ed.): Denis Diderot or the ambivalence of the Enlightenment. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-88479-277-6 , pp. 157-184.
• Philosophy des sciences et morale matérialiste. Le Troisième dialogue du Rêve de d'Alembert. In: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford 1983, p. 370 ff.
• From the courtisane philosophe to the femme-matrice. Aspects of the image of women in the Encyclopédie. In: Lendemains, Numéro spécial Simone de Beauvoir, 94/1999, p. 123ff.
• Aspects of the method expérimentale chez Diderot. In: Studies on Voltaire and the Eightennth Century. 1989, p. 503ff.
• Leibniz and Diderot. Aspects of Leibniz Reception in the Natural Philosophy of the French Enlightenment. In: Hans Poser (Ed.): Nihil sine ratione, files of the VII. International Leibniz Congress. Vol. III, Berlin 2001, pp. 137 ff.
• Natural philosophy and natural sciences. In: Horst Albert Glaser, György Mihaly Vajda (eds.): The turn from the Enlightenment to Romanticism 1760–1820: An overview of the epoch (=  Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, Vol. 14). John Benjamin's Pub. Co., Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 1-5561-9671-7 , pp. 173-208.
• From the salon to the academy. Émilie Du Châtelet and the transfer of scientific and philosophical paradigms within the European scholarly republic of the 18th century. In: Gesa Stedman, Margarete Zimmermann (Ed.): Courtyards - Salons - Academies. Cultural Transfer and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-4871-3268-0 , pp. 285-306.
• Diderot and Leibniz. The Leibniz Reception in the Natural Philosophy of the French Enlightenment. In: Studia Leibnitiana, Volume XXXVI / I. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 57-69.
• Time travel into the infinity of the universe - Leibniz and Diderot on the structure of the cosmos. In: TRANS. Internet Journal for Cultural Studies, No. 16/2005.
• Translation discourses of the French Enlightenment. The Newton translation by Emilie du Châtelet. In Brunhilde Wehinger, Hilary Brown (ed.): Translation culture in the 18th century. Translators in Germany, France and Switzerland (=  Enlightenment and Modernism, 12). Wehrhahn-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-8652-5212-5 , pp. 19-36.
• Leibniz and the natural theories of the French Enlightenment: The reception of the concepts of Monas and body, unit and aggregate in the nature discourse of the Encyclopédie. In: Herbert Breger, Jürgen Herbst, Sven Erdner (Eds.): Unity in the multiplicity, supplement to the 8th International Leibniz Congress. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society, Hanover 2006, ISBN 3-9808-1671-0 , pp. 235–243.

Individual evidence

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