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arnaud.pelletier@ulb.be
Current position
Chaire de philosophie moderne, Université libre de Bruxelles (10.2013-)
Past positions
FWO Pegasus Marie Curie Research Fellow, Center for Metaphysics and Philosophy of culture, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (10.2012-09.2013)
Gastwissenschaftler, Leibniz-Stiftungsprofessur, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover (02.2012-09.2012)
Chargé de cours en philosophie moderne à la Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover (2010-2012)
Post-doctorant de la Fondation Alexander von Humboldt, Leibniz Archiv, Hannover (2010-2012)
Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College, London (09.2009-01.2010)
Pensionnaire de la Fondation Thiers, Institut de France et CNRS, Paris (09.2006-08.2009)
Education
Thèse en histoire de la philosophie, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (juin 2009)
Research projects
Principal Investigator of the EOS project RENEW18 (2022-2026): Responses to Newton's mathematical-experimental paradigm in 18th-century philosophy
Principal investigator of the ARC project PRPK (2015-2019): Que dois-je faire? Les transformations de la raison pratique dans la philosophie moderne avant Kant
Research promotor
2022- : Guillaume Coissard (postdoc, Chargé de recherche FNRS). "Renewing materialism"
2022- : Henny Blomme (postdoc, EOS Renew18). "Newtonianism, Monadism and the problem of continuous extension in Germany"
2021 : Rodolfo Garau (postdoc, Marie Curie COFUND, granted but declined). "Gassendian Empiricism"
2019-2020 : Angela Ferraro (postdoc, Marie Curie COFUND). "Treating (of) errors. Logic and Method in Continental Europe"
2017- : Sören Hand (PhD - codirection with Thomas Leinkauf, WWU Münster, partim ARC What shall I do). "Platonic forms of thinking in G. W. Leibniz"
2015-2022 : Jaime Derenne (PhD, ARC What shall I do). "L'élaboration progressive de la doctrine du juste chez le jeune Leibniz (1663-1677)"
2015-2016 : Andrea Costa (postdoc, ARC What shall I do). "Combinatoire : de l'art à la technique"
2014-2017 : Lucian Petrescu (postdoc, Chargé de recherche FNRS). "Thomism and Scotism in the seventeenth century. Hylomorphism and the structure of material substance according to Scholastic manuals"
ORCID: 0000-0003-4747-1080
1. Edited volumes
3. Pelletier, A. (2016). Leibniz's experimental philosophy. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
4. Pelletier, A. (2015). Leibniz and the aspects of reality. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
2. Journal special issues
2. Pelletier, A. (2020). Lectures de Martial Gueroult. Revue Internationale de Philosophie.
6. Pelletier, A. (2014). Leibniz and the Scholastics. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
7. Pelletier, A. (2010). Folie et déraison à l'âge classique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
3. Translations
2. Kant (2009). Abrégé de philosophie. Leçons sur l'encyclopédie philosophique. Paris: Vrin.
3. Kant (2007). La Dissertation de 1770. Paris: Vrin.
4. Selected articles
2. Kant and the Demarcation Challenge: the Background Debate on Improper Science, Archivio di filosofia, 87, 1, 2019, p. 149-161
3. “The Point of View is in the Body”: On the Leibnizian Turns of Anthropology, in: Weckend, Julia;Strickland, Llyod (ed.) Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact, Routledge, London, 2019, p. 225-241
4. The Scientia Generalis and the Encyclopaedia, in: Antognazza, Maria Rosa (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz, Oxford University Press, New York, 2018, p. 162-176
5. On the Origin of Concepts: the Cognitive Continuum between the Senses and Understanding in Christian Wolff’s German Logic, in : Pelletier,Arnaud (ed.), Christian Wolff's German Logic, Sources, Significance and Reception, Olms, Hildesheim, 2017, p. 29-51
6. The estimation of reality. Variety, change and order of the real according to Leibniz, Quaestio, 17, 2017, p. 217-234
7. Metaphysics, experience and demonstration: the a priori and a posteriori ways of the 'Monadology', in Li, W. (ed.), Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer, Olms, Hildesheim, Vol. 4, 2016, p. 489-503
8. Sensualitas et Sinnlichkeit : La constitution de la sensibilité jusqu’à la Critique de la raison pure, in: Calori, François;Foessel, Michaël;Pradelle, Dominique (ed.), De la sensibilité. Les esthétiques de Kant, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2014, p. 145-158
9. Logica est Scientia generalis: l’unité de la logique selon Leibniz, Archives de philosophie, 76, 2013, p. 271-294
10. Leibniz’s Anti-scepticism, in: Charles, Sébastien;Plinio, Smith (ed.), Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung, Springer, Dordrecht, New York, 2013, 45-61