Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Department of Philosophy and Program of African Studies

Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Aggrégatiion in Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm, doctorat d'état, Sorbonne), taught philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar before joining Northwestern in 2002. Between 1993 and 1999 he was a special advisor to the President of Senegal for cultural and educational policy. His area of specialty is symbolic logic where he is the author of a book on Boole's algebra of logic and of a translation, with presentation of Booles Laws of Thought. He is also the author of several books on Africa and Islam: The Cultural Question in Africa (with Henri Ossebi, 1996); Islam et société ouverte: La fidelité et le mouvement dans la philosophie d'Iqgal (2001); and Reconstruire le sens: Textes et enjeux de prospectives africaines (2001) and the editor of four others. He is a member of the editorial board of Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques and of Présence Africaine as well as a member of the Pan-African Council for the development of Research in Social Sciences, CODESRIA.

s-diagne@northwestern.edu