Sophie Weeks

Lecturer

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Sophie joined the Department in 2009. She was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Research Interests

Her research focuses on the philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626).

She is currently working on two major projects:

  • a book entitled Francis Bacon's Science of Magic, contracted with Cambridge University Press.
  • editing (with Daniel Andersson and Rhodri Lewis) volume 5 of the Oxford University Press edition of Francis Bacon's complete works, which comprises Bacon's early philosophical writings to about 1611.

More broadly, she is interested in the history of medieval and early modern natural philosophy, especially the interactions between science, magic and religion.

Selected Publications

  • 'Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction,' Ambix 54 (2007), pp. 117-145.
  • 'The role of mechanics in Francis Bacon's Great Instauration,' in C. Zittel, G. Engel, R. Nanni, and N. C. Karafyllis (eds.), Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries, Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies series vol. 11. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 2 vols, vol. 2, pp. 133-195.