Sophie Roux (born 1965) is a French

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and

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focusing on the

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of European science, including

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and its opponents,

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s and

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, and the history of the philosophy of science. She is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the

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Education and career

Roux was born in Paris in 1965. She was a student at the École normale supérieure beginning in 1984, and passed the

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in philosophy in 1987. She earned two

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degrees, one in philosophy through

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under the direction of

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in 1989, and a second one in history of science through the

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(EHESS) under the direction of . Continuing to work with Coumet at EHESS, she completed a Ph.D. in 1996, with the dissertation ''La philosophie mécanique (1630–1690)''. After postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, she became a ''professeur agrégé'' at EHESS in 1998, and an assistant professor of early modern philosophy at

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in 2002. While holding this appointment, she earned a

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in 2010 through the

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. In 2012, she took her present position as a professor at the École normale supérieure.

Books

Roux is the author of: *''L'Essai de logique de Mariotte: archéologie des idées d'un savant ordinaire'' (Histoire et philosophie des sciences 2, Classiques Garnier, 2011) Her edited works include: *''Retours sur l'affaire Sokal'' (edited with Gilles Denis and Marie-José Durand-Richard, L'Harmattan, 2007) *''Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period'' (edited with Massimo Bucciantini and Michele Camerota, Leo S. Olschki, 2007) *''Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts'' (edited with Katerina Ierodiakonou, Brill, 2011) *''The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy'' (edited with

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, Springer, 2013) *''L’Automate : Modèle Métaphore Machine Merveille'' (edited with Aurélia Gaillard, Jean-Yves Goffi, and Bernard Roukhomovsky, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2013) *''Œuvres d’Ernest Coumet (Tome 1)'' (edited with Thierry Martin, Presses Universitaires de Franche-comté, 2016) *''Louis Couturat (1868–1914) : Mathématiques, langage, philosophie'' (edited with Michel Fichant, Classiques Garnier, 2017)

Recognition

Roux was named a junior member of the

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in 2006.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roux, Sophie 1965 births Living people French historians French women historians Historians of science French women philosophers French philosophers of science