My current PhD project aims at reconstructing Kant’s evolving conception of monads throughout his pre-critical and critical texts. It does so (i) by giving a first and comprehensive account of the shift from Kant’s physical monadology of the 1750s and 1760s to his reappraisal of monadology of the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s, (ii) by situating this shift within the broader framework of the development of monadologies in the eighteenth century, and (iii) by exploring how this framework was shaped by the rising modern science of the time. The project is funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

I obtained my BA at the Università degli Stu…

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