Stéphanie Ruphy is currently University Professor of Philosophy and Contemporary Sciences in the Philosophy Department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and a member of the La République des Savoirs laboratory.
Stéphanie Ruphy trained in philosophy in the United States at Columbia University (Master’s degree and PhD obtained in 2004 under the direction of Philip Kitcher), after a Licence and a DEA in France (Université Paris X). She also holds a PhD in astrophysics (Observatoire de Paris/Sorbonne University) and a degree in aeronautical engineering (ENSICA, now part of ISAE-SUPAERO), after completing her scientific preparatory classes at the Lycée Berthollet in Annecy.
Stéphanie Ruphy was elected member of The Academia Europaea in 2018 and member of The European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) in 2017.
She has been President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) since 2021 and a member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) since 2022.
Stéphanie Ruphy has been Director of the French Office for Scientific Integrity (Ofis) since April 2021.
She has also been Scientific Director of the ENS Espace Chair since January 2024.
Stéphanie Ruphy’s research falls under the general philosophy of science and is divided into five main themes:
- Science, values and democracy. Research governance. Citizen participation.
- Political commitment of researchers – scientific expertise and political decision-making.
- Scientific integrity, responsibility of researchers towards society.
- Scientific pluralism. The unity-plurality debate. Synergies between different knowledge systems
- Naturalized metaphysics
- Digital simulations
Stéphanie Ruphy coordinates the ANR CRISP project ((Addressing) the Challenge of Research Integrity in Scientific Practices). She coordinated the ANR DEMOCRASCI project (Epistemological foundations and principles for democratizing the governance of science) and the PartiSciPproject (funded by Idex Université de Lyon) entitled “Sciences participatives: nouvelles perspectives épistémologiques sur l’objectivité scientifique”. She was co-sponsor (for SHS) of the Idex Université Grenoble Alpes QuEng project (A pluridisciplinary ecosystem for Quantum technologies) and the PEPS project “Science et philosophie : regards croisés sur les simulations numériques”.
Until 2020, she was a member of the programming committee for the CitizenCampus project (training for public debate on major issues in science and society) at Grenoble Alpes University.
Stéphanie Ruphy was also (2018-2020) an internal member of the SAB (Scientific Advisory Board) of the University of Lyon’s Idex and scientific director of the RESETIS platform “Environmental and social responsibility, research ethics, scientific integrity” at the University of Lyon.
From 2015 to 2018, she was President of the Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS), and since 2011 has been an elected member of the Comité national français d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (CNFHPS).
Stéphanie Ruphy was also a member of the Steering Committee of the POND(Philosophy Of Science Around the Mediterranean) research network.
From 2012 to 2017, she was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), director (2013-2017) of the Philosophie, pratiques & langages laboratory (EA 3699) and vice-president of UGA in charge of interdisciplinarity (2016 and 2017). From 2017 to 2020, she was a professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
From 2012 to 2016, Stéphanie Ruphy was an appointed member (and member of the bureau) of section 35 and an elected member (and scientific secretary) of CID 53 of the Comité national de la recherche scientifique (CoCNRS). She was also an elected member of section 72 of the Comité national des universités (CNU).
In 2020, she was named Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques.
To find out more, visit her website.
