Ali Benmakhlouf is currently professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnique University (UM6P), director of the African Studies Centre (UM6P), professor emeritus at Paris Est Val de Marne University and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He was UNESCO’s expert on philosophical dialogue between the Arab and Asian worlds (2004-2011), and has taken part in numerous training courses in Asian countries (South Korea, Thailand, Japan) and Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt). He coordinated the South/South philosophical dialogue for UNESCO (2013).
He is currently involved in debates on bioethics, having been a member and then vice-chairman of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE, 2008-2016) and the Consultative Ethics Committee (CCDE) of the Institut de recherches (IRD) pour le développement, which he chaired from 2009 to 2013.
He is a member of the Société Française de Philosophie, the Institut International de Philosophie, the Société d’Histoire de la Pharmacie and a permanent member of the Académie Nationale de Pharmacie.
Since 2022: Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnique University and Director of the African Studies Centre, and member of the Académie du royaume du Maroc.
PR. ALI BENMAKHLOUF
His research focuses on three areas
MEDICAL SCIENCES
His latest book in this field is entitled “The power of reason, logic and medicine” (Fayard, 2018). At the UM6P medical school, he teaches medical ethics.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC
The philosophy of logic.He has written numerous books on G. Frege, B. Russell, A.N. Whitehead, L. Wittgenstein. He teaches research ethics in the Materials Science Department (MSN) at UM6P.
ARABIC PHILOSOPHY
The forgotten legacies of classical Arab philosophy (Al Fârâbi, Ibn Tufayl, Averroès), and more recently at UM6P, knowledge of Africa through Arab sources (Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, Hassan Al Wazân).