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Souleyman Bachir Diagne
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Email: s-diagne@northwestern.edu
Souleymane Bachir Diagne's work is focused on the history of logic and mathematics, epistemology, the tradition of philosophy in the Islamic world, identity formation, and African philosophies. He is an alumnus from Ecole Normale Superieure (rue d'Ulm) in Paris, where he studied with, in particular, Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida. He completed his doctorate ("Doctorat d'Etat") on Boole's algebra of logic at Université Paris I, Sorbonne in 1988, under the direction of Jean Toussaint Desanti. His main publications include two books on George Boole: Boole, l'oiseau de nuit en plein jour (Belin, Paris. 1989.) and a French translation of Boole's Laws of thought with an introduction on his work (Vrin, Paris, 1992). His most recent book is an examination of the Indian poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal: Islam et société ouverte. La fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal (Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris. 2001). Before joining Northwestern University, Diagne was the vice-dean of the College of Humanities and a professor in the philosophy department at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal.
Writings and Recently Taught Courses
Books- Boole, l'oiseau de nuit en plein jour. Belin. Paris.1989.(a book on George Boole's algebra of Logic)
- Logique pour philosophes. NEAS . Dakar. 1991 . (A text-book in mathematical logic as well as a presentation of the most important moments in the history of Logic) .
- Les Lois de la Pensée de George Boole. Vrin. Paris 1992. (a translation in French and a presentation of George Boole's Laws of Thought) .
- The cultural question in Africa. Written with Henri Ossebi. Codesria. Dakar. 1996.
- Islam et société ouverte : la fidélité et le mouvement dans la philosophie d'Iqbal. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, 2001. (A presentation of Muhammad Iqbal's philosophy as an illustration of modernist philosophical thought in the Islamic world) .
- Reconstruire le sens. Textes et enjeux de prospectives africaines. Codesria. Dakar. 2001
Books Edited
- Culture du développement. Codesria. Dakar.1991. (A book on the Culture of development).
- Autour de la methode, de Descartes à Feyerabend. Presses Universtaires de Dakar 1995. (A publication initiated in my doctoral Seminar with different contributions on the notion of scientific method, from Descartes to Feyerabend)
- Gaston Berger, introduction à une philosophie de l'avenir. NEAS. Dakar. 1997. (A publication initiated in my doctoral Seminar with different contributions on the philosophy of Gaston Berger).
- Time and development in the thought of subsaharan Africa. Rodopi. Amsterdam. Atlanta GA. 1998. (Co-editor : Prof. Heinz Kimmerle).
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Selection of recent and representative further publications
- "Africanity as an open question", In Identity and beyond: rethinking Africanity. Discussion Paper 12. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala. Sweden 2001.
- "Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic", In A Companion to African Philosophy. Edited by Kwasi Wiredu. Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
- "Religion and the Challenge of the Spiritual in the Twenty-First Century", In The Future of Values . Ed. Jérôme Bindé. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2004.
- "Islam and philosophy: lessons from an encounter ", In Diogenes , ICPHS. London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, 2004.
- "The Life Force and the Utopia of the Post-Human", In Diogenes , ICPHS. London , Thousand Oaks , CA and New Delhi , 2006
- "Muhammad Iqbal, a philosophy of Newness", talk at Johns Hopkins and Rice. To be published.
- "Senghor and Teilhard de Chardin on the convergence of cultures", talk in Dakar and Paris , to be published.
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