Dr. Jil Muller
PostDoc
- E-Mail:
- jil.muller@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-5034
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About Jil Muller
Curriculum Vitae
2022: Seal of Excellence from European Commission Horizon Europe (2022) for the Project: DescartesSurgery, Descartes and Renaissance Surgery: The Mechanical Idea of Human Being.
2022: VivaMente Award 2022 vom Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) Pisa.
06/2025 - 07/2026: Funding from Paderborn University equal opportunities funding line 2, Support for junior professors and post-doctoral students through WiMi positions, for a one-year pre-doc candidate in early modern philosophy.
2023: Acquisition of Third-party funding for the international, hybrid Conference Women and their Body (15th-17th March 2023)
Research
Research Interests
Fields:
- History of philosophy: History of early modern philosophy (in particular French and German philosophies) and early modern Women Philosophers
- Early modern philosophy and medicine
- History of medicine and medical theories
- Early modern philosophy of science
Topics:
- Ethics and moral philosophy in Montaigne and Descartes (in connection with stoicism, epicureanism, medieval philosophy, and sixteenth-century French moralists)
- Moral philosophies in Women Philosophers (Sophie Germain, Marie de Gournay, Gabrielle Suchon, Émilie du Châtelet)
- Medical theories and practices in early modern philosophies
- Philosophies of sciences and practical knowledge in early modern philosophies
Publications
Latest Publications
Vorwort: Brisante Wahrheiten – Philosophinnen und Denkerinnen und die andere Geschichte der Philosophie und Wissenschaften
R. Hagengruber, J. Muller, F. Grewe, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht Kultur und Gesellschaft 17 (2025).
Brisante Wahrheiten – eine andere Geschichte der Philosophie
R.E. Hagengruber, J. Muller, F. Grewe, GENDER Journal, eds., Brisante Wahrheiten – Eine Andere Geschichte Der Philosophie , Barbara Budrich Verlag, 2025.
Women and their Body
J. Muller, ed., Women and Their Body, De Gruyter Brill, Berlin, 2025.
Eritis sicut dii, scientes bonum et malum: Sin, Pride, and Curiosity in the Moral Philosophy of Montaigne and Descartes
J. Muller, in: A. McKenna, G. Mori (Eds.), Philosophie et Scepticisme de Montaigne à Hume, Mélanges En l’honneur de Gianni Paganini, Honoré Champion, Paris, 2023, pp. 65–80.
Ambroise Paré and René Descartes on Sensation in Amputated Limbs
J. Muller, in: F. Baldassarri (Ed.), Descartes and Medicine Problems, Responses and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline, Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, 2023, pp. 81–97.
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Teaching
Current Courses
- The Early Works of Émilie du Châtelet (Summer School)
- Selbsterfahrung durch Leid und Schmerz in der Frühen Neuzeit
- Elisabeth von Böhmens Korrespondenz mit René Descartes
Scientific Engagement
Since 2024 | Member of the UPB research commission (Humanities/Kulturwissenschaften) for mid-level academic positions
Since 2022 | Coordinator of the New Voices Project by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn.
2016 - 2018 | Elected voting member of the faculty board at the University of Strasbourg
02/2015 - 02/2017 | Member of the voting board at the doctoral school, representative for the PhD students, University of Strasbourg.
2015 | Committee for the organisation of a doctoral summer school 2015 Strasbourg.
Since 01/2025 | Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW
Since 2022 | Deutscher Akademikerinnen Bund e.V.
Since 2021 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie
Since 2019 | PRIN (Early modern Philosophy and Science, University of Piemont/ Italy)
Since 2019 | CREPHAC (Centre de recherches en philosophie allemande et contemporaine, University of Strasbourg/ France
Since 2019 | ESEMP (European Society for Early Modern Philosophy)
Further Information
Stellvertretende Leiterin des Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
Assistenz am Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie