Stéphanie Ruphy - Biography#

Stéphanie Ruphy received a degree in aeronautical engineering from the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de constructions aéronautiques (ENSICA) at Toulouse in 1992, her M.A. in astrophysics from the Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie in 1993, her M.A. in philosophy from the University of Nanterre in 1996, her Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Paris Observatory/University of Paris VI, and finally, her Ph.D. in philosophy (with distinction) at the Columbia University New York in 2004 (supervised by Philip Kitcher). She became Associate Professor of philosophy of science at the Université Aix-Marseille in 2004, was appointed full professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes in 2012, and moved to the University Lyon 3 in 2017.

Stéphanie Ruphy has started her career as an astrophysicist and published a variety of papers in the framework of the DENIS programme (Deep Near Infrarad Survey of the Southern Sky) in the 1990s. She then moved from practicing science to reflecting on science. In philosophy of science she published contributions in first-rate journals such as Philosophy of Science (several times), Synthese and International Studies in Philosophy of Science. She authored a monograph on Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered with Pittsburgh University Press in 2016, which is a highly reputed publisher in philosophy. She also managed to attract grant money, for instance, for the ANR-funded project “democrasci” that addresses “epistemological foundations and principles of democratization of the governance of science.” Her services to the community include her election to the Steering Committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) for 2012/13 and her presidency of the Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS) since 2014.