Hourya Benis Sinaceur
Hourya Sinaceur is a Moroccan philosopher. She is an expert in the theory and history of mathematics.
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Biography
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 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
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
- "Hommage à Rabat à la philosophe marocaine Hourya Benis Sinaceur" in MAP, 16 Nov. 2007 retrieved 32-2-2009)
- Statuts / Composition / Actualités passées / Historique, Comité national français d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences, 2011, retrieved 2020-06-15
- 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
- Review of Functions and Generality of Logic: Risto Vilkko, MR3363186
External links
- Sinaceur, H., 2001. "Alfred Tarski: Semantic shift, heuristic shift in metamathematics", Synthese 126: 49–65.
- "Alfred Tarski Life and Logic", Review by Sinaceur
- Presentation (in French) and bibliography of recent work on IHPST (retrieved on Feb. 22, 2009)