CV de Sophie Roux

Education and diplomas

2010 Habilitation à diriger des recherches [accreditation to supervise research], ENS de Lyon. Recherches sur la philosophie naturelle à l’âge classique.
1996 PhD in History of Science, EHESS, centre Alexandre-Koyré. La philosophie mécanique (1630–1690).
1990 DEA in History of Science, [pre-doctoral degree] ; EHESS, centre Alexandre-Koyré. Les fonctions de l’éther dans les systèmes physiques du XVIIe siècle.
1989 DEA in Philosophy [pre-doctoral degree], université Paris I. La modération de Montesquieu.
1987 Agrégation in Philosophy [competitive examination for becoming a highschool teacher].
1984 admission at the École normale supérieure, section L [humanities].

Academic appointments

2012–present Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, École normale supérieure, Paris.
2002–2012 Assistant professor of Early Modern Philosophy, université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble.
1998–2002 Professeur agrégé, EHESS, centre Alexandre-Koyré.
1997–1998 Research fellow (BAT IIa), Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, department II.
1996–1997 Post-doctoral fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, department II.

Awards and Fellowships

2025 Visiting Fellow in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Maison française d’Oxford (2 months residency).
2024 NOTCOM Research Fellow, Maison française d’Oxford (1 month residency).
2021-2022 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.
2021 Invited Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai (6 hours of teaching, online because of Covid-19).
2021 Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford (2 ½ months residency, abridged because of Covid-19).
2020 Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (6 months residency, abridged because of Covid-19).
2018 Research Scholar at the MPIWG, Berlin, department II (4 ½ months residency).
2016 Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Bologna (1 ½ month residency).
2015 Invited Professor at the Eastern China National University, Shanghai (24 hours of teaching).
2014 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney (1 ½ month residency).
2010 Research scholar at the MPIWG, Berlin, department I (2 months residency).
2009 Research scholar at the MPIWG, Berlin, department II (2 ½ months residency).
2007–2012 Junior member of the Institut universitaire de France
1993–1995 Fondation Thiers scholarship.
1992–1993 Chargée de cours [reader] at the université de Clermont-Ferrand.
1989–1992 Assistante Monitrice Normalienne [Teaching and research assistant] at the université Paris I.
1989 Teaching assistant in French language at Stanford University.

Publications
1. Books

Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes : controverses épistémologiques des années soixante, edited with L. Fabry, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2025.
Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and his Receptions, edited with D. Antoine-Mahut, London, New York : Routledge, 2018.
Louis Couturat (1868-1914). Mathématiques, langage, philosophie, edited with M. Fichant, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2017.
Duhem, P., La Théorie physique, ed., intr. “Lire Duhem aujourd’hui” and annotation, Lyon, ENS de Lyon : Bibliothèque idéale des sciences sociales, 2016.
Coumet, E., Œuvres complètes. Vol. 1. Articles, edited with T. Martin ; intr. “Ernest Coumet au Pays des merveilles. Rencontres épistémologiques d’un historien des sciences,” p. 13–67, Besançon : Presses universitaires de Besançon, 2016.
The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, edited with D. Garber, New York, Dordrecht, Boston, London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2013.
L’automate. Machine, métaphore, modèle, merveille, edited with A. Gaillard, J.-Y. Goffi and B. Roukhomovsky, Bordeaux : Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2012.
La mathématisation comme problème, edited with H. Chabot, Paris : Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2011.
L’Essai de logique de Mariotte. Archéologie des idées d’un savant ordinaire, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011.
Thought Experiments in Historical and Methodological Contexts, edited with K. Ierodiakonou, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo : Brill, 2011.
Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution, Dortrecht, edited with W.R. Laird, Boston, London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2008.
Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, edited with M. Bucciantini and M. Camerota, Firenze : Olschki, 2007.
Retours sur l’affaire Sokal (ed.), Paris : L’Harmattan, 2007.

2. Guest-edited journals

Forms of Mathematization, 14th–17th century, edited with C.R. Palmerino. Early Science and Medicine, 15, 2010.
Lambertiana, edited with P.-E. Bour. Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage, 28, 2010.
Du Nouveau dans les sciences, edited with S. Carvallo. Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage, 24, 2006.
Histoire des Jeux, Jeux de l’histoire, edited with I. Passeron. Revue de synthèse, 2-3-4, 2001.

3. Articles

“Pascal’s Philosophy of Science,” in The Blackwell Companion to Pascal, eds. R. Ariew and Y. Avnur, Blackwell, to be published 2025, 22 p.
“La Révolution scientifique ou Comment s’en débarrasser,” in Histoire de l’astronomie et de la physique. Vol. 2. Époque moderne, ed. H. Chabot, London : ISTE Éditions, to be published 2025, 43 p.
“’The French Naturalists Are More Discursive, than Active or Experimentall’ : Deconstructing the Cliché that Early Modern French Natural Philosophers Were Cartesians Engaged in Speculative Philosophy,” in Continental Empiricism in the Early Modern Period : Revising a Historiographical Category, eds. R. Garau and A. Pelletier, to be published 2025, 28 p.
“L’historicité des sciences comme problème chez Canguilhem,” in Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes. Controverses épistémologiques des années 1960, eds. L. Fabry and S. Roux, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2025, pp. 77–133.
“Introduction. Étudier les bachelardismes et les anti-bachelardismes aujourd’hui,” en collab. avec L. Fabry, in Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes. Controverses épistémologiques des années 1960, eds. L. Fabry and S. Roux, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2025, pp. 7–33.
“Ce qu’une historienne de la philosophie a appris des études de controverses en histoire des sciences,” in La raison au travail. II. Histoire des idées, eds. D. Antoine-Mahut, A. Charrak, P. Girard and M. Mestre-Zaragoza, Lyon : ENS Éditions, 2024, pp. 115–132.
“Pascal : expériences cruciales et démonstrations par l’absurde,” Bulletin de la Société française de philosophie. Séance du 18 novembre 2023, 2024, pp. 6–18.
"Une histoire intellectuelle de la tripartition concept, notion, idée selon les dictionnaires philosophiques," Revue de synthèse, t. 144, n° 3-4, 2023, p. 1–44.
“What to Do with the Mechanical Philosophy ?,” in Oxford Handbook to the Scientific Revolution, eds. D. Jalobeanu and D. Miller, Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 75–95.
“The Mathematical Theses Defended at collège de Clermont (1637-1682) : How to Guard a Fortress in Times of War,” in collab. with D. Collacciani, in Teaching Philosophy in the 17th Century, eds. S. Berger and D. Garber, Doredrecht : Springer 2021, pp. 79–137.
“Une enquête sur Jacques du Roure (suite),” Bulletin cartésien, 50, 2021, pp. 20–30.
“Premiers éléments d’une enquête sur Jacques du Roure,” Bulletin cartésien, 49, 2020, pp. 168–180.
“The Condemnations of Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV (1661–1691),” in Oxford Handbook to Descartes and Cartesianism, eds. D. Antoine-Mahut, S. Nadler and T. Schmaltz, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 755–779.
“A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Forces,” in Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and his Receptions, eds. D. Kolesnik and S. Roux, London, New York : Routledge, 2018, pp. 141–159.
“From the Mechanical Philosophy to Early Modern Mechanisms,” in Routledge Handbook of mechanisms, eds. S. Glennan and P. Illari, London, New York : Routledge, 2018, pp. 26–45.
“La Lettre à Dinet,” in Les Méditations, ed. D. Arbib, Paris : Vrin, 2018, pp. 394–414.
“A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments,” in collab. with J.-Y. Goffi, in Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, eds. J.R. Brown, Y. Fehige and M. Stuart, London, New York : Routledge, 2018, pp. 439–453.
“The Two Comets of 1664–1665 : A Dispersive Prism For French Natural Philosophy Principles,” in The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought, ed. P. Anstey, London, New York : Routledge, 2017, pp. 98–146.
“Couturat et Lalande : quelles réformes du langage ?,” in Louis Couturat (1868-1914). Mathématiques, langage, philosophie, eds. M. Fichant and S. Roux, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2017, pp. 231–268.
“Pierre Bourdin contre Descartes. La querelle sur l’optique à la lumière des thèses des mathématiques du Collège de Clermont (1638–1653),” in collab. with D. Collacciani, in Chemins du cartésianisme, eds. R. Carbone and A. Del Prete, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2017, pp. 51–84.
“Pierre Bourdin, anti-cartésien ou jésuite ordinaire ? Une étude systématique des thèses des mathématiques du Collège de Clermont (1638–1653),” in collab. with D. Collacciani, Historia Philosophica, 2017, pp. 89–113.
“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Summa quadripartita that Descartes Never Wrote,” Journal for Early Modern Studies, 5, 2016, p. 171–186. Reprinted in Perspectives on Science, 26-5, 2018, pp. 1–16.
“De Malebranche à Locke et retour. Les idées avec ou sans la vision en Dieu,” in Les malebranchismes des Lumières, ed. D. Kolesnik, Paris : Honoré Champion, 2014, p. 67–113.
“Was There a Cartesian Experimentalism in Seventeenth Century France ?,” in Cartesian Empiricisms, eds. M. Dobre and T. Nyden, New York, Dordrecht, Boston, London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2014, pp. 47–88.
“An Empire Divided : French Natural Philosophy (1670–1690),” in The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, eds. D. Garber and S. Roux, New York, Dordrecht, Boston, London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2013, pp. 55–98.
“Pour une conception polémique du cartésianisme. Ignace-Gaston Pardies et Antoine Dilly dans la querelle de l’âme des bêtes,” in Qu’est-ce qu’être cartésien ?, ed. D. Kolesnik, Lyon : ENS Éditions, 2013, pp. 315–337.
“Quelles machines pour quels animaux ? Jacques Rohault, Claude Perrault, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli,” in L’automate. Machine, métaphore, modèle, merveille, eds. A. Gaillard, J.-Y. Goffi, B. Roukhomovsky and S. Roux, Bordeaux : Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2012, pp. 69–113.
“Logique et méthode au XVIIe siècle,” Cahiers philosophiques de l’université de Strasbourg, 2012, p. 21–46.
“Pour une étude des formes de la mathématisation,” in La mathématisation comme problème, eds. H. Chabot and S. Roux, Paris : Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2011, pp. 3–38.
“The Emergence of the Notion of Thought Experiments,” in Thought Experiments in Historical and Methodological Contexts, eds. K. Ierodiakonou and S. Roux, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo : Brill, 2011, pp. 1–36.
“On the Very Idea of a Thought Experiment,” in collab. with J.-Y. Goffi, in Thought Experiments in Historical and Methodological Contexts, eds. K. Ierodiakonou and S. Roux, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo : Brill, 2011, pp. 165–191.
“Meyerson et les mathématiques,” Corpus, 58, 2010, p. 28–45.
“Forms of Mathematization (14th–17th Centuries),” Early Science and Medicine, 15, 2010, pp. 319–337.
“Exact Experiences and Mathematical Deductions : Physics according to Mariotte,” in Departure for Modern Europe. Philosophy between 1400 and 1700, Hamburg : Felix Meiner Verlag, 2010, pp. 715–733.
“Histoire de la science classique et historicité des sciences chez Meyerson,” in L’histoire et la philosophie des sciences à la lumière de l’œuvre d’Émile Meyerson (1859–1933), eds. E. Telkes-Klein and E. Yakira, Paris : Honoré Champion, 2010, pp. 91–114.
“L’Essai de logique de Mariotte : une naturalisation de la méthode ?,” Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage, 27, 2010, p. 163–188.
“Quelles mathématiques pour la force de percussion ?” in Mathématiques et connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée, ed. S. Rommevaux, Paris : Omniscience, 2010, pp. 243–285.
“Controversies on Legality (1680–1710),” in Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe, eds. L. Daston and M. Stolleis, Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009, p. 199–214.
“The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Hero to Galileo,” in collab. with E. Festa, in Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution, eds. W.R. Laird and S. Roux, Dordrecht, Boston, London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2008, pp. 195–221.
“Les Recherches métaphysiques de Gassendi : vers une histoire naturelle de l’esprit,” in Gassendi et la modernité, ed. S. Taussig, Turnhout : Brepols, 2008, pp. 105–140.
“D’une Affaire aux autres,” in collab. with J. Debaz, in Retours sur l’affaire Sokal, ed. S. Roux, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2007, pp. 1–48.
“Littéraires et scientifiques : trivialiser n’est pas sans danger,” in Retours sur l’affaire Sokal, ed. S. Roux, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2007, pp. 89–132.
“La philosophie naturelle à l’époque de Le Nôtre. Remarques sur la philosophie mécanique et sur le cartésianisme,” in Fragments d’un paysage culturel, André Le Nôtre, Institutions, arts, sciences et techniques, ed. G. Fahrat, Sceaux : Musée de l’Ile de France, 2006, pp. 98–111.
“La moindre petite force suffit à mouvoir un corps sur l’horizontal. L’émergence d’un principe mécanique et son devenir cosmologique,” in collab. with E. Festa, Galilaeana, 3, 2006, pp. 123–147.
“Découvrir le principe d’inertie,” Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage, 24, 2006, p. 453–515.
“La philosophie naturelle d’Honoré Fabri (1607–1688),” in Les Jésuites à Lyon, eds. E. Fouilloux and B. Hours, Lyon : Presses de l’ENS-LSH, 2005, pp. 75–94.
“Los Retos de la filosofia mecanica en el siglo XVII : el caso de Descartes,” in Los Orígenes de la ciencia moderna Actas - Ano XI-XII, Tenerife : Fundacion Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia, 2004, pp. 427–441.
“Cartesian Mechanics,” in The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Europe, eds. C.R. Palmerino and H. Thijssen, Dordrecht, Boston, London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 25–66.
“Le para phusin et l’imitation de la nature dans quelques commentaires du prologue des Questions mécaniques,” in collab. with E. Festa, in Largo Campo di Filosofare. Eurosymposium Galileo 2001, eds. J. Montesinos and C. Solis, Tenerife : Fundacion Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia, 2001, pp. 237–253.
“Les lois de la nature au XVIIe siècle : le problème terminologique,” Revue de synthèse, 2-3-4, 2001, pp. 531–576.
“Descartes atomiste ?” in Atomismo e continuo nel XVII secolo, eds. R. Gatto and E. Festa, Napoli : Vivarium, 2000, pp. 211–274
“Le scepticisme et les hypothèses de la physique,” Revue de synthèse, 2-3, 1998, pp. 211–255.
“La nature de la lumière selon Descartes,” in Le Siècle de la Lumière, eds. C. Biet and V. Jullien, Fontenay Saint-Cloud : Presses de l’ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, 1997, pp. 49–66.
“Le premier livre des Équilibres plans : réflexions sur la mécanique archimédienne,” in Mathématiques dans l’Antiquité, ed. J.-Y. Guillaumin, Saint-Étienne : Presses de l’université de Saint-Étienne, 1992, pp. 95–160.

4. Other publications

“Des vertus pour les scientifiques : oui, mais, lesquelles ?,” in Le Sens du réel. Essais en l’honneur de Claudine Tiercelin, Numéro spécial de la revue Klèsis, eds. J.-M. Chevalier and Benoît Gaultier, to be published 2025.
“L’imagination au pouvoir, ou : Le voyage du cardinal de Retz à Athènes et Berlin,” in Le regole della ragione. Studi in onore di Mariafranca Spallanzani, eds. D. Donna and M. Rueff, Bologna : Mucchi, 2023, pp. 85-92.
“Deux leçons sur la physique cartésienne” (Deux de trois leçons données en français en mars 2021 à Fudan, traduites en chinois par Qihui Shao), Études de philosophie française, ed. Mo Weimin, Shanghai : Shanghai People’s Publishing House, (法国哲学研究, 上海人民出版社), 4 (2021), pp. 132-176.
“Le temps de l’anamnèse,” in Michel Serres. Un hommage à 50 voix, Paris : Le Pommier, 2020, pp. 175–178.
“Connaître, s’estimer et rire,” Surprise. 107 Variations on the Unexpected, eds. M. Feld, A. teHeesen, Ch. Von Oertzen and F. Vidal, Berlin : MPIWG, 2019, pp. 344–347.
“Preface,” in B. Klein, Les chaires et l’esprit. Organisation et transmission des savoirs au sein d’une université germanique au XVIIe siècle, Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2017, pp. 5–9.
“Introduction,” Noctua, Philosophy and Mathematics at the Turn of the 18th Century : New Perspectives, 4, 2017, pp. i–ix.
“Intégrité, éthos scientifique, fraudes et négligences », L’Archicube, 19, 2015, pp. 52–70.
“À propos du colloque The Machine as Model and as Metaphor,” Revue de synthèse, 30, 2009, pp. 165–175.
“De la nouveauté à l’âge classique,” in Concepts, cultures et progrès scientifiques et techniques, enseignement et perspectives, ed. G. Pajonk, Éditions du Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2009, pp. 79–90.
“Introduction,” in collab. with S. Carvallo, Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage, 24, 2006, pp. 7–36.
“Le meilleur des mondes ?,” Les Cahiers de Science et Vie. La Nature et le principe de moindre action, 68, 2002, pp. 30–34.
“Mécaniques cartésiennes,” Les Cahiers de Science et Vie. Numéro spécial René Descartes, 66, 2001, pp. 46–53.
“Présentation,” in collab. with I. Passeron, Revue de synthèse, 2-3-4, 2001, pp. 271–286.
Entry “force,” in Dictionnaire d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences, eds. F. Balibar, B. Bensaude-Vincent, D. Lecourt, M. Morange and P. Tassy, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1999, pp. 419–421.
“Les explications de la philosophie mécanique,” La Lettre de la Maison Française d’Oxford, 4, 1996, pp. 125–136.

5. Book reviews for : Annales, Revue d’histoire des sciences, Physis, Revue de synthèse, Early Science and Medicine, Metascience, Bulletin cartésien.

Invited presentations (selected 2012–)

March 2025, “Consensus, Collaboration and Communication : Scientific Societies in Early Modern France,” Conference “Lots of Understanding and Communication” ? Practices of Collaboration and Collective knowledge in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Paris (org. M. Laerke (CNRS, IHRIM / Maison française d’Oxford) and S. Roux).
July 2024, “The Two Comets of 1664-1665. A Dispersive Prism for French Natural Philosophy Principles" and “Consensus, Collaboration and Communication : Scientific Societies in Early Modern France,” Summerschool Controversies vs. Collaboration in the Scientific Revolution : Societies, Experiments and the “Common Language” of Science across Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe, Hamburg Institute of Advanced Studies (org. D. Jalobeanu, University of Bucharest, D. Garber, Princeton University, M. Schemmel, University of Hamburg and R. Garau, University of Hamburg).
July 2024, “The Issue of the Historicity of Sciences in Canguilhem,” symposium Bachelard, Canguilhem and Simondon on the Historicity of Science and Technology, conference HOPOS, Vienna.
May 2024, “The Anatomy of the Brain, the Material Soul and the Rational Soul in Willis and Charleton,” Conference Gassendi and England, Montpellier (org. D. Bellis, université de Montpellier).
May 2024, “Canguilhem et l’historicité des sciences,” Journées Histoire et philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Nancy (org. K. Chemla et N. de Courtenay, CNRS, SPHERE, and G. Heinzmann, université de Nancy).
October 2023, “Expériences cruciales et preuves par l’absurde,” conference Pascal intempestif, collège de France (org. Cl. Tiercelin, collège de France, and L. Plazenet, université Clermont-Auvergne).
September 2023, “History and Philosophy of Science at its Best. A Belated Tribute to Ernan McMullin,” Conference Consonances I : Mathematics, Language, and the Moral Sense of Nature, Maynooth (org. S. Gottlöber, C. Mac an Bhaird and K. Tracey, Maynooth University).
March 2023, “Pascal’s Philosophy of Science”, workshop Blaise Pascal, Claremont, CA (org. R. Ariew, University of South Florida, and Y. Avnur, Scripps College).
March 2023, “Is Descartes’s Physics a Metaphysical Physics ?,” Workshop in honor of Dan Garber, Durham, North Carolina (org. K. Brading, Duke University).
Decembre 2022, “The French Naturalists Are More Discursive, than Active or Experimentall” : Deconstructing the Cliché that Early Modern French Natural Philosophers Were Cartesians Engaged in Speculative Philosophy », conference Continental Empiricism in the Early Modern Period : Revising a Historiographical Category, Bruxelles (org. R. Garau, Ca Foscari, Università di Venezia, and A. Pelletier, Université Libre de Bruxelles).
May 2021, “The Life and Circumstances of Jacques du Roure (1621-1683 ?), or : How to Make a Living from Teaching Cartesian (?) Philosophy,” Early Modern Intellectual History Seminar, Oxford (org. D. Levitin and N. Malcolm, Oxford) ; Fellows Seminar of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin ; Crisis and Change in Early Modernity : Knowledge, Practice, Governance, Venezia (org. P/ Omodeo et Jonathan Regier, Ca’ Foscari, Università di Venezia) ; doctoral seminar of the philosophy department (org. D. Garber, Princeton University).
May 2021, “The Two Comets of 1664–1665. A Dispersive Prism for French Natural Philosophical Principles,” Visiting Fellows Colloquium (org. S. Talmon, Oxford).
March 2020, “Connaissance des choses physiques et connaissance des choses mathématiques dans la controverse Descartes-Gassendi,” conference Gassendi & Descartes : la controverse de la Disquisitio metaphysica, Paris (org. D. Bellis, université de Montpellier, and S. Roux).
January 2020, “Jacques du Roure : Schoolboarder, Uncle of a Rebel, Cartesian,” Descartes in the Classroom, Nijmegen (org. D. Cellamare, Radboud University Nijmegen, and M. Mantovani, KU Leuven).
November 2019, “Eclecticism and Scepticism in Early Modern France,” Eclecticism and Eclectic Philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries, Bucharest (org. T. Prunea, University of Bucharest, and S. Roux).
October 2019, “La glande pinéale en Angleterre : More, Willis, Charleton, Glanvill,” Le cerveau cartésien : problèmes et controverses, Paris (org. D. Kambouchner, D. Lacroux and R. She, Universités de Paris 1).
May 2019, “Mariotte’s Radical Experimentalism,” Experience and Reasoning in Scientific Methodology : between Antiquity and the Early Modern Period, Prague (org. M. Havrda, The Czech Academy of Sciences).
January 2019, “Material and Immaterial Souls in Gassendi,” Mind and Matter. Dividing Lines in the Early Modern Period, Paris (org. J.-P. Anfray, ENS, and M. Rozemond, University of Toronto).
July 2018, “What to Do with the Mechanical Philosophy ?,” History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, Ames (org. D. Miller, Iowa State University).
September 2017, “Descartes philosophe du système. La critique de la physique cartésienne en France à la fin du XVIIe siècle,” Teoria e critica dei sistemi nel Settecento, Bologna (org. M. Spallanzani, università di Bologna).
June 2016, “Laws of Nature : Words, Concepts, Things,” Early Modern Laws of Nature, Oxford (org. I. Silva, Oxford, and A. Sangiacomo, University of Groningen).
March 2015, “The Mathematical Theses Defended at collège de Clermont (1637-1682) : How to Guard a Fortress in Times of War,” in collab. with D. Collacciani, Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century : Image and Text, Princeton (org. J. Berger, D. Garber and A. Grafton, Princeton Universdity).
August 2014, “The Two Comets of 1664-1665. A Dispersive Prism for French Natural Philosophy Principles,” Principles in Early Modern Thought, Sydney (org. P. Anstey and S. Gaukroger, University of Sydney).
January 2014, “What Kind of Mechanism for Cartesian Physics ?” Mechanicism, Mathematics and Experiment : Early modern Intersections, Bucharest (V. Alexandrescu and D. Jalobeanu, Bucharest, Center for Early Modern Studies).
June 2013, “On the Very Idea of Thought Experiment,” Nijmegen (org. C. R. Palmerino, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
March 2012, “A Cartesian Across The Channel : Antoine Le Grand Encounters with the Bishop Samuel Parker and the Aristotelian John Sergeant,” Intellectual Encounters Across the Channel, Oxford (org. M. Pécharman, CNRS, MFO, and P. Beeley, Linnacre College).

Teaching and advising (selected, 2012–)
1. Master

Histoires de la Révolution scientifique et théorie des révolutions scientifiques
Les Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences
Histoire et théorie des controverses à l’âge classique
Locke, Essai sur l’entendement humain
Kuhn, La structure des révolutions scientifiques
Galilée, Dialogue sur deux grands systèmes du monde
Granger, Pensée formelle et sciences de l’homme

2. Agrégation

Oral, texte français, Duhem, La théorie physique
Écrit, Descartes
Oral, Épistémologie et logique
Oral, texte italien, Galilée, Il Saggiatore
Oral, texte français, Bayle, Pensées diverses sur la comète
Oral, texte italien, Galilée, Lettere
Oral, texte français, Descartes, Les Principes de la philosophie

3. Research seminars

Machines, mécanismes, explications machiniques, explications mécaniques
Qui a peur du relativisme ?
Controverses scientifiques
L’incroyable efficacité des mathématiques
Expériences de pensée
Gassendi et Descartes : le dialogue de la chair et de l’esprit. Sur la Disquisitio metaphysica
Séminaire de l’équipe Mathesis

4. PhD advisor

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Event organization and funding (selected 2012–)
1. Conferences and workshops

“Lots of Understanding and Communication” ? Practices of Collaboration and Collective Knowledge in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, organized with M. Laerke (MFO / IHRIM, ERC NOTCOM), Paris, March 2025
Animal Minds, organized with M. Mantovani (KU Leuven), Leuven, February 2025.
Philosophy of Science and Science and Technology Studies through the Lens of Technology, organized with J. Maršálek (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and A. Pottin (ERC Residues), Prague, November 2023.
Gassendi et Descartes : le dialogue de la chair et de l’esprit, organized with D. Bellis (université de Montpellier), Paris, March 2020.
Eclecticism and Eclectic Philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries, organized with T. Prunea (University of Bucharest), Bucharest, November 2019.
Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes, organized with L. Fabry and F. Worms (ENS), Institut d’études avancées, Paris, April 2019.
Learned Philosophy. In honour of R. Ariew, organized with D. Jesseph (University of South Florida), D. Garber (Princeton University), G. Manning (Caltech University), O. Nachtomy (Bar Illan University), J. Smith (université Paris VII), ENS, Paris, January 2016.
Observations and Experiments as Forms of Writing : Describing, Registering, Recording and New Scientific Genres in Early Modern Europe, organized with C. Crignon (Paris-Sorbonne), Paris, May 2015.
Les processus de l’objectivation, in honour of L. Daston, Paris, November 2015.
Controversies and Experimentations in the Emergence of Modern Philosophy and Science, Paris, Avril 2014.
Louis Couturat, organized with M. Fichant (Paris-Sorbonne), Paris, May 2014.
Third Congress of the ESEMP, Debates, Polemics and Controversies in Early Modern Philosophy, Grenoble, January 2013.
Physique et métaphysique : quels enjeux pour la constitution des cartésianismes et des anticartésianismes ?, organized with D. Kolesnik (ENS de Lyon), Lyon (March 2013) and Paris (October 2013).

2. Seminars and reading groups

With some other members of La République des savoirs, Les temps de la pandémie (2021–2022).
With J.-B Amadieu (CNRS), Lectures croisées (2020–2022).
With J.-P. Anfray (ENS), F. de Buzon (université de Strasbourg), D. Kambouchner (université Paris 1) and M. Pécharman (CNRS), Séminaire Descartes (2014-2019).
With G. Bianco (2014), then with J.-P. Anfray, D. Arbib, P. Clavier and I. Saurin (2015), Qu’est-ce que faire de l’histoire de la philosophie ? Catégories, méthodes, pratiques.
With J.-P. Anfray, D. Arbib, E. Partene and al. (2017–), Séminaire Mathesis.

3. Grants

Thinking Technical Objects as Epistemological Details, PSL Global Seed Fund (2024-2026) and, with avec J. Maršálek, PHC Barrande (2025-2027)
Nouveaux chantiers en histoire et philosophie des sciences then Figures de l’épistémologie historique : la question des techniques, EUR Translitterae (resp. 2020–2023).
Controverses scientifiques et philosophiques dans la République des Lettres, Labex Transfers (2012–2016).

Professional service (2012–)
1. Administrative Duties at the École normale supérieure (2012–)

Director at the École normale supérieure of Master LOPHISS-SC2, in cooperation with the université Paris VII and the École Polytechnique (2012–2014) ; then Master LOPHISS-SPH, in cooperation with université Paris VII (2014–2018).
Member of the jury of the International Selection of the École normale supérieure (2014–2016), of the jury for admission of students (2022–2024).
Leader of the team Mathesis (2012–).
Director of the ED 540 [Doctoral program for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at ENS] (2016–2020).
Director of La République des savoirs, ENS-CNRS-Collège de France (2019–2024).
Member of the board of the EUR Translitterae (2018-2020).

2. National Expertise

Member of the jury for the entrance examination to the ENS de Lyon (2004) and of the jury for the agrégation in philosophy (2005–2007).
Member of the Conseil national des universités, section 17 (philosophy), collège B (2008–2011) and collège A (2015–2016).
Referee for the recruitment of assistant professors at the EHESS (2012).
Member of recruitment committees for assistant professors at the universities of Grenoble II (2005, 2008, 2010), of Lyon III (2008), of Paris I (2012), of Strasbourg (2012), of Chambéry (2012), and at the École normale supérieure (2018, 2022).
Member of recruitment committees for professors at the universities of Lyon II (2013, 2017), of Lille III (2014), of Nanterre-Paris-Ouest (2016, 2018), of Grenoble-Alpes (2016), of Rennes (2017), of Bordeaux (2017), of Paris 1 (2019), of Nancy (2020) and at the École normale supérieure (2013, 2017, 2018, 2020).
Member of the scientific committee of Rencontres philosophiques de Langres (2014–2015).
President of the Prix de thèse PSL SHS, jury Humanités (2018–2019).

3. International Expertise

Referee (funding) : Research in Paris, Research Foundation-Flanders, Wellcome Trust, Labex Hastec, Israel Science Foundation, Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science.
Referee (promotion and recruitment) : Carleton university, Université Libre de Bruxelles, université de Montréal, Tshingha university, European University Institute (Firenze).
Member of the Scientific commitee of the doctoral programm Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics, university of Bologna (2019-).

4. Editing and peer review

Scientific and editorial boards : Early Science and Medicine (1999–), Revue d’histoire des mathématiques (2008–2016), Bibliothèque des sciences sociales (2009–2018), Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte (2009–2018), Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg (2013–), European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2017–), Physis. Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza (2020–).
Referee (journals) : Early Science and Medicine, Science in Context, Compte rendus de l’Académie des sciences (Physique), Historia scientiarum, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, XVIIe siècle, Lato sensu, Dialectica, Revue d’histoire des sciences, Philosophia scientiae, Society and Politics, The Philosophical Quarterly, Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg, Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Rivista di storia della filosofia.
Referee (presses) : Leo Olschki, Centre national du livre, Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, Routledge, Presses de l’ENS.

5. Responsibilities in learned societies

Vice-president (2007–2009, 2013–2016) and president (2009–2013) of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy.
Member of the organization committee for the section “Kant and Before” of the Congress of theInternational Society for the History Of Philosophy Of Science (Minneapolis, 2016), member of the steering committee and of the publications committee for the same (2016–2022).
Membre sociétaire de la Société française de la philosophie (2019–).

Selected public engagement

Blogging : Évaluation de la recherche en SHS (2009–), Academia. Informations sur l’emploi des enseignant-e-s chercheur-se-s en sciences humaines et sociales, (2012–2017).

Radio : interviews in La conversation scientifique (France-Culture), Les nouveaux chemins de la connaissance (France-Culture), La méthode scientifique (France-Culture), Sciences chrono (France-Culture).

Festival : Sciences et Cinéma. À nous de voir 2006-2008 and 2014, Nuit Sciences, Cinéma, Révolutions with Séances Publiques (2016), Night of Philosophy (New York 2014, Stockholm 2017).
Other presentations at colleges and public events.