Dr. Jil Muller
PostDoc
- E-Mail:
- jil.muller@uni-paderborn.de
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- +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
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.
Soigner l’humain Péchés et remèdes chez Montaigne et Descartes
J. Muller, Soigner l’humain Péchés et remèdes chez Montaigne et Descartes, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2022.
Les « fleaux de nostre ame », Les vices dans la pensée de Montaigne et de Descartes
J. Muller, Bulletin de la Société internationale des amis de Montaigne 73 (2021) 285–304.
L’imagination chez Descartes et ses contemporains
J. Muller, ed., L’imagination chez Descartes et ses contemporains, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2020.
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Teaching
Current Courses
- Wissenschaftlerinnen vom 16ten bis 18ten Jahrhundert
- Warum Frauen nicht studieren können
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