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PELLETIER Arnaud
Professeur - Chaire de Philosophie moderne
Bureau NA3.111a
50, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt -CP133/02
1050 Bruxelles - Belgique
@arnpelletier.bsky.social
ORCID: 0000-0003-4747-1080
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Academia: https://ulb.academia.edu/ArnaudPelletier
My work focuses on early modern German philosophy from Leibniz to Kant, reconstructed in its systematic relation to the natural sciences and its later receptions. It emphasizes the different temporalities of philosophical invention and shows that early modern philosophy is structured by evolving regimes of conceptual reconfiguration rather than by stable metaphysical foundations.
CV
Full Professor, Chair for Early Modern Philosophy, Université libre de Bruxelles (2013-)
2018-2026: Director of Centre de recherche en Philosophie (PHI)
Visiting affiliations (selected): Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2022-2023: Member of the School of History Studies), University of Rome Sapienza (2023), University of Princeton (2024), University of Montréal (2025), Maison française d'Oxford (2026).
Co-editor of the Revue internationale de Philosophie (2022-)
Past positions
2012-2013: FWO Pegasus Marie Curie Research Fellow, Center for Metaphysics and Philosophy of culture, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven2012: Gastwissenschaftler, Leibniz-Stiftungsprofessur, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover
2010-2012: Lehrbeauftragter, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover (2010-2012)
2010-2012: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral Fellow, Leibniz Archiv, Hannover (2010-2012)
2009-2010: Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College, London
2006-2009: Fondation Thiers Research Fellow ('Pensionnaire'), Institut de France et CNRS, Paris
Education
PhD in History of Philosophy, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (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): What shall I do? Transformations of practical reason in early modern philosophy prior to Kant
Research promotor
2025- : Marie Lauwers (PhD, FNRS). "Matière sans objet. Usages et transformations du concept de matière de Descartes à Newton"2023- : Tom Bildstein (PhD, Seed Money, Mini-Arc ULB). "Les chemins de la volonté : Schopenhauer et le problème de la méthode"
2023-2024 : Gabriel Meyer-Bisch (Collaborateur scientifique FNRS). "Leibniz et la physique sacrée : influence des physiques mosaïques et de l'astronomie képlérienne sur la philosophie leibnizienne"
2023 - : Olivier Claude (PhD, EOS Renew18). "Mécanique, métaphysique, matérialismes : D’Alembert et les réceptions de Newton"
2023- : Marco Storni (postdoc, EOS Renew18). " An Aristotelian Defense of Newton: The Jesuit Theory of Matter in France"
2022-2025 : 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"
Selected Publications (Comprehensive list of publications on Di-Fusion)
Selected Articles
"The Scientia Generalis and the Encyclopaedia", in M. R. Antognazza (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz. Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 162–176. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199744725.013.19
"The Story of a Phantom Conflict: The Dispute over Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Second Round of the Kant–Eberhard Controversy", Kant‑Studien, 116 (4), pp. 568–585. DOI: 10.1515/kant-2025-2029
"Leibniz and the Myth of Purely Passive Matter", in A. Marmodoro (ed.), Matter. Oxford, 2026 (forthcoming).
“The Point of View is in the Body”: On the Leibnizian Turns of Anthropology, in J. Weckend & L. Strickland (eds.), Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact. Routledge, 2019, pp. 225–241.
Edited Volumes (selected)
With R. Garau, Continental Empiricism. New York: Routledge, 2026. DOI: 10.4324/9781003468844
With G. Coissard, L’activité de la matière. Paris: Vrin, 2024.
Critical Editions (selected)
Kant, Principes métaphysiques de la science de la nature. Paris: Vrin, 2017.
Kant, La Dissertation de 1770. Paris: Vrin, 2007.
Gueroult, La Critique de la raison pure de Kant. Paris: Éditions du Collège de France, 2022.
Gueroult, L’évolution et la structure de la philosophie pratique kantienne. Paris: Éditions du Collège de France, 2025.
Public outreach
A small blog entry on a dog that could talk... (Leibniz and the Talking Dog of Zeitz: The Social Life of an Anecdote)
and a podcast Eloge des petites perceptions (France Culture)