Sophie Roux will be the first NOTCOM Research Fellow and will be based at the Maison Française d’Oxford in March 2024. Sophie is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. She has been director of the graduate program in Humanities and Social Sciences and is currently director of the research team La République des savoirs (CNRS-Collège de France-ENS). After her PhD, she held positions at the MPIWG (Berlin), at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris) and at the University of Grenoble.
Sophie’s main research interest is in the history of early modern science and early modern philosophy, more specifically in the history of Cartesianism and anti-Cartesianism in France. She has written papers on the philosophy of science (e.g. on thought experiments or on mathematization) and on the history of philosophy of science (e.g. on Pierre Duhem, on Louis Couturat or on the so-called French historical epistemology). She is also a member of the NOTCOM Advisory board.