Hourya Benis Sinaceur

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Hourya Benis Sinaceur

Hourya Sinaceur is a Moroccan philosopher. She is an expert in the theory and history of mathematics.

Biography[edit]

Hourya Benis was born in 1940 in Casablanca in Morocco.[1] Sinaceur worked for Paris-Sorbonne University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research which is also in Paris, and the URS[clarification needed] in Rabat. She has also served as a member of the National French Committee of History and Philosophy of Science (Comité National Francais d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences.[2]

Books[edit]

She is the author of the book Corps et Modèles (1991), translated into English as Field and Models: From Sturm to Tarski and Robinson (Birkhauser, 2003).[3] and of Functions and Generality of Logic: Reflections on Dedekind's and Frege's logicisms (Springer, 2015).[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Hommage à Rabat à la philosophe marocaine Hourya Benis Sinaceur" in MAP, 16 Nov. 2007 [1] retrieved 32-2-2009)
  2. ^ Statuts / Composition / Actualités passées / Historique, Comité national français d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences, 2011, retrieved 2020-06-15
  3. ^ Reviews of Field and Models: Javier Echeverría (1992), Theoria, JSTOR 23915307; Albert C. Lewis (1992), Isis, JSTOR 233959; Peter M. Neumann (1992), British Journal for the History of Science, JSTOR 4027271; Pascal Gribomont (1997), Revue Internationale de Philosophie, JSTOR 23954471
  4. ^ Review of Functions and Generality of Logic: Risto Vilkko, MR3363186

External links[edit]

  • Sinaceur, H., 2001. "Alfred Tarski: Semantic shift, heuristic shift in metamathematics", Synthese 126: 49–65.
  • "Alfred Tarski Life and Logic", Review by Sinaceur [2]
  • Presentation (in French) and bibliography of recent work on IHPST [3] (retrieved on Feb. 22, 2009)