@article{51008,
  abstract     = {{I examine Du Châtelet’s methodology for physics and metaphysics through the lens of her engagement with Newton’s Rules for Reasoning in Natural Philosophy. I first show that her early manuscript writings discuss and endorse these Rules. Then, I argue that her famous published account of hypotheses continues to invoke close analogues of Rules 3 and 4, despite various developments in her position. Once relevant experimental evidence and some basic constraints are met, it is legitimate to inductively generalize from observations; general hypotheses can thereafter be assumed as true until contrary experiments show otherwise. I conclude by arguing that this account of induction plays an essential role in her metaphysics, both in an argument for simple substances—which has an inductive premise—and in her attempt to distinguish acceptable and unacceptable metaphysical commitments. }},
  author       = {{Wells, Aaron}},
  journal      = {{European Journal of Philosophy}},
  title        = {{{Du Châtelet, Induction, and Newton’s Rules for Reasoning}}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

@inbook{51010,
  abstract     = {{I distinsuish three ways in which early modern rationalists seek to apply the principle to empirical science. Previous readings have neglected how these thinkers assume substantive theories of explanation and intelligibility in many of their deployments of this rationalist principle. I argue that Leibniz, Du Châtelet, and Euler are all vulnerable to the objection that they deploy their standards of intelligibility inconsistently: their own favored explanations do not always live up to the standard. This chapter also defends more particular interpretive claims about these thinkers, for example arguing against Jeff McDonough’s anti-realist reading of Leibniz on laws of nature. }},
  author       = {{Wells, Aaron}},
  booktitle    = {{The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A History}},
  editor       = {{Della Rocca, Michael and Amijee, Fatema}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  title        = {{{The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Early Modern Philosophy of Science: Leibniz, Du Châtelet, and Euler}}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

@inbook{51012,
  author       = {{Wells, Aaron}},
  booktitle    = {{The History and Philosophy of Science, 1450 to 1750}},
  editor       = {{Stan, Marius}},
  publisher    = {{Bloomsbury}},
  title        = {{{Women in Early Modern Science: Du Châtelet, Bassi, and Agnesi}}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

@inbook{51011,
  author       = {{Wells, Aaron}},
  booktitle    = {{The Bloomsbury Companion to Du Châtelet}},
  editor       = {{Amijee, Fatema}},
  publisher    = {{Bloomsbury}},
  title        = {{{Du Châtelet’s Philosophy of Mathematics}}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}