Hourya Benis Sinaceur Explained

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

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.

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).^[2] and of Functions and Generality of Logic: Reflections on Dedekind's and Frege's logicisms (Springer, 2015).^[3]

References

1. "Hommage à Rabat à la philosophe marocaine Hourya Benis Sinaceur" in MAP, 16 Nov. 2007 http://www.vivrefemme.net/Hommage-a-Rabat-a-la-philosophe-marocaine-Hourya-Benis-Sinaceur_a985.html retrieved 32-2-2009)
2. Reviews of Field and Models: Javier Echeverría (1992), Theoria, ; Albert C. Lewis (1992), Isis, ; Peter M. Neumann (1992), British Journal for the History of Science, ; Pascal Gribomont (1997), Revue Internationale de Philosophie,
3. Review of Functions and Generality of Logic: Risto Vilkko,

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 https://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070800986p.pdf
• Presentation (in French) and bibliography of recent work on IHPST http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/51,hourya_benis_sinaceur.html (retrieved on Feb. 22, 2009)