Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a professor in the departments of French and of Philosophy at Columbia University. His areas of research and publication include History of Philosophy, History of Logic and Mathematics, Islamic Philosophy, African Philosophy, and Literature.

His latest publications in English include: Open to Reason. Muslim philosophers in conversation with Western tradition, New York, Columbia University Press, 2018; Postcolonial Bergson, Fordham University Press, New York, 2019; In Search of Africa(s). Universalism and Decolonial Thought, (Dialogue with Jean-Loup Amselle), Polity Press, 2020; African art as philosophy. Senghor, Bergson, and the idea of Negritude, The Other Press, 2023

Professor Diagne is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.