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Pr. Ali Benmakhlouf

Ali Benmakhlouf is currently professor at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), director of the Center for African Studies (CAS), co-director of Arab Classical Philosophy and Philosophy of Sciences (ACCPS), 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-president 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 Société Française de Philosophie, Institut International de Philosophie, Société d’Histoire de la Pharmacie and a permanent member of Académie Nationale de Pharmacie, and a member of Academy of The Kingdom of Morocco.

PR. ALI BENMAKHLOUF

Since 2022: Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Director of Center for African Studies

Winter and spring 2022: Visiting Professor at New York University

2019-2020: One-month residency (twice 15 days) at the French School of Rome for a series of four lectures entitled “The philosophical journeys of Ibn Tufayl, Averroes, Maimonides and Montaigne”.

Since 2011: University Professor (exceptional grade since September 2014) at the University of Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne

2016-2021: Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France

Since 2020: Permanent member of the Académie Nationale de pharmacie

2016-2020: Member of the Philosophy Jury of the “Rencontres de Monaco”.

2014-2015: Pérelman Chair at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

2014-2015: Paul Valéry Chair at Corti University in Corsica

2008-2016: Member then Vice-Chairman of the National Consultative Ethics Committee, renewed for four years in March 2012.

Since 2009: Member of the Orientation Council of the Institut Diderot.

Since 2007: Member of the French Philosophy Society.

Since 2004: Member of the International Institute of Philosophy (IIP).

Since 1997: Co-director of the “Philosophies” collection at Presses Universitaires de France and co-director of the ” Philosophical debates ” collection at Editions Le Fennec, Casablanca.

2009-2013: Chairman of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement).

2003-2011: University Professor, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

2009-2011: Member of the Côte d’Azur ethical space.

2008-2011: Member of the Centre National du Livre.

1996 «B.Russell, logical atomism», Puf, collection «Philosophies », 128p (out of print).

1997 «G.Frege, logician-philosopher», Puf, collection «Philosophies », 128p (out of print).

2000 Averroès, collection « Figures of knowledge», Beautiful Letters, 210p (translated into Portuguese).

2001 «The vocabulary of G.Frege», Ellipses, 64p.

2002 «The vocabulary of B.Russell», Ellipses, 64p.

2002 «G. Frege the necessary and the superfluous», Vrin, 222p.

2004 «Bertrand Russell», Beautiful Letters, 251p.

2007 «The vocabulary of Averroès, Ellipses, 65p.

2007 «Al Fârâbî philosophy in Baghdad in the 10th century, Seuil, bilingual edition, presentation (45 pages), 240 p.

2008 «Montaigne», Beautiful Letters, Figures of Knowledge, 201 pages (translated into Portuguese)

2011 «Identity, a philosophical fable», Puf, 176p.

2011 « It’s art», DK Editions, Casablanca, Morocco, 186p.

2011 « You could do with a bit more philosophy Politiques », DK Editions, Casablanca, Morocco 144p.

2012 «The right to know and the desire to know », DK Editions, Casablanca, Morocco, 207 p.

2012 « Philosophical voices» in DK Editions, Casablanca, Morocco, 263p.

2014 « According to reason», in DK Editions, Casablanca, 207 p.

2014 « The conversation », in Khbar bladna, Tangier, 121 p.

2015 «Why read Arab philosophers» Albin Michel, 205p. (translated into Arabic)

2016 «Conversation as a way of life» Albin Michel, 245p.

2018 «The power of reason, logic and medicine», Fayard, 312p.

2019 «Bioethics and human rights, Crossroads», Casablanca, 162p.

2022 «The reality of the past, Crossroads», Casablanca, 178p.

2023 «The humanity of others», Albin Michel, 240p.

1997 «Reason and the question of limit»s, Le Fennec, Casablanca, 335p.

1998 «Routes and diversions of the universal», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 104p.

1999 A.N.Whitehead, «the solidary universe», philosophical time, Paris-10, Nanterre, 112p.

2000 «The journey of theories», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 108p.

2001 «Is everything relative? » Le Fennec, Casablanca, 167p.

2002 «Law and political rationality», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 272p.

2003 «Co-ordination of a special issue on Arab philosophy», “Philosophy” review».Editions de Minuit.

2004 «The future of reason, the future of rationalities», ed. Vrin, 192p. (et CD de 700 pages), co-directed with Jean François Lavigne),

2004 «Semantics and epistemology», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 340p.

2006 «The social link», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 300p.

2008 «Editing of issue 13 of the journal Noesis: “Quine, Whitehead and their contemporaries”.

2010 «Ibn Khaldun Michel Foucault : the case, the example, the model»,Le Fennec, Casablanca, 204p.

2010 «Poverty and wealth: economic and philosophical perspectives», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 131p.

2010 «Muslim civilisation in the mirror of the universal», philosophical perspectives, UNESCO, 428 pages.

2010 Editing of Noesis 17: «Can science do without its history? », in collaboration with Sébastien Poinat.

2011 «Recognition», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 206p.

2011 «Health ethics», Casablanca, Maroc, 86p.

2013 «Bioethics for what? » PUF, 348p.

2013 «Education in the contemporary world, knowledge and the knowledge society», Editions Le Fennec, 2013,135p, co-directed with Nicolas Piqué.

2014 «The democratic awakening»,in Dk Editions, 341 p.

2015 «The meaning of justice», Le Fennec, Casablanca, 118p.

2017 «Humanity facing climate and environmental challenges», King Abdul Aziz Foundation, 162p.

1999 Frege, « Logic» in Ecrits posthumes, Ph. De Rouilhan et Cl. Tiercelin (éd.), Jacqueline Chambon, p.9-16. (in the “articles in contemporary philosophy” booklet.)

1999 « Dialogue with Pünjer on existence», in Ecrits Posthumes, op.cit., p.67-84. (in the “articles in contemporary philosophy” booklet)

2000 Averroès, Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De Interpretatione, Vrin, coll. Sic et non, in collaboration with Stéphane Diebler, introduction and notes, 206p.

2009 The school of freedom, studies on the state of philosophy in the world, UNESCO, translation direction.

2012 The political vocabulary of the European vocabulary of philosophies, translation from French into Arabic, edited by Ali Benmakhlouf and Mohammed Sghir Janjar, Le centre culturel arabe, Beyrouth/Casablanca, 288p.

2008-2022 : Expert reports on translation assistance for the CNL (Centre National des Lettres)

2013 : Chevalier of the National Order of Merit (France).

2014 : Officer of the National Order of Merit (Maroc).

2015 : Medal of the French National Academy of Pharmacy (France).

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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).

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