Sophie Roux (born 1965) is a Frenchhistorian of science andphilosopher of science focusing on theearly modern period of European science, includingCartesianism and its opponents,thought experiments andmathematical modeling, and the history of the philosophy of science. She is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at theÉcole normale supérieure (Paris).^[1]

Roux was born in Paris in 1965.^[2] She was a student at the École normale supérieure beginning in 1984, and passed theagrégation in philosophy in 1987. She earned twoMaster of Advanced Studies degrees, one in philosophy throughParis 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the direction ofMichel Serres in 1989, and a second one in history of science through theSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) under the direction ofErnest Coumet [fr]. Continuing to work with Coumet at EHESS, she completed a Ph.D. in 1996, with the dissertationLa philosophie mécanique (1630–1690).^[3]

After postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, she became aprofesseur agrégé at EHESS in 1998, and an assistant professor of early modern philosophy atPierre Mendès-France University inGrenoble in 2002. While holding this appointment, she earned ahabilitation in 2010 through theÉcole normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012, she took her present position as a professor at the École normale supérieure.^[3]

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)^[4]

Her edited works include:

• Retours sur l'affaire Sokal (edited with Gilles Denis and Marie-José Durand-Richard, L'Harmattan, 2007)^[5]
• Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (edited with Massimo Bucciantini and Michele Camerota, Leo S. Olschki, 2007)^[6]
• Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts (edited with Katerina Ierodiakonou, Brill, 2011)^[7]
• The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy (edited withDaniel Garber, Springer, 2013)^[8]
• L’Automate : Modèle Métaphore Machine Merveille (edited with Aurélia Gaillard, Jean-Yves Goffi, and Bernard Roukhomovsky, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2013)^[9]
• Œuvres d’Ernest Coumet (Tome 1) (edited with Thierry Martin, Presses Universitaires de Franche-comté, 2016)^[10]
• Louis Couturat (1868–1914) : Mathématiques, langage, philosophie (edited with Michel Fichant, Classiques Garnier, 2017)^[11]

Roux was named a junior member of theInstitut Universitaire de France in 2006.^[12]

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