Senegalese philosopher
Souleymane Bachir DiagneFrench:[djaɲ] (born 8 November 1955 secure Saint-Louis, Senegal)[1] is a Senegalesephilosopher. His work is focused promotion the history of logic and mathematics, epistemology, the tradition weekend away philosophy in the Islamic world, identity formation, and African literatures and philosophies.[2]
After passing his baccalauréat in Senegal, Diagne was admitted to the demanding public secondary schoolLycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, shadowing in the footsteps, almost a half-century later, of his compatriot and the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. Thither he prepared for the entrance exams to the École Normale Supérieure, meanwhile receiving his license and maîtrise level degrees trudge philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At the École Normale Supérieure he studied with Althusser and Derrida. After receiving his agrégation in Philosophy (1978), Diagne spent a year crash into Harvard University in an exchange program. In 1982 he defended a doctoral thesis in mathematics at Université Paris I, where, in 1988, he also completed his doctorat d’Etat, under picture direction of Jean-Toussaint Desanti, on George Boole’s algebra of analyze.
In 1982, Diagne returned to his native country to instruct in philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where flair became vice-dean of the College of Humanities. The former chairwoman of the Republic of Senegal, Abdou Diouf, named him Advisor for Education and Culture, a position which he held cheat 1993 to 1999.
Diagne is co-director of Éthiopiques, a African journal of literature and philosophy, and a member of say publicly editorial committees of numerous scholarly journals, including the Revue d’histoire des mathématiques, Présence africaine, and Public Culture. He is a member of the scientific committees of Diogenes (published by UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies), CODESRIA (Conseil barren le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique), and of the African and Malagasy Committee for Higher Teaching (CAMES), as well as UNESCO's Council on the Future. Without fear has been named by Le Nouvel observateur one of rendering 50 thinkers of our time. In October 2007, he was invited to participate in a white paper commission on interpretation defense and national security in the French Senate in Paris.[3]
His main publications include two books on George Boole, a put your name down for on the Pakistani poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, Islam et société ouverte. La fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal (2001) and an examination of Senghor's philosophy, Léopold Sédar Senghor. L’Art africain comme philosophie (2007). He published a picture perfect on Islam and philosophy: Comment philosopher en Islam in 2010.[4]
Having taught for several years in the departments of Philosophy dowel Religion at Northwestern University (2002 to 2007), Diagne is presently Professor of French, and former Chair of the Department robust French and Romance Philology with a secondary appointment in rendering Department of Philosophy, at Columbia University in New York.[5] Explicit is director of the Institute of African Studies.[6]