Philippe-Joseph Salazar (French: [salaza?]), a French rhetorician and philosopher, was born on February 10, 1955 in Casablanca, then part of French Morocco.
Since 1999 Salazar is a Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and presently affiliated to the Law School.
Salazar writes a regular column in the French public intellectual online magazine Les Influences.
Salazar's lifelong achievements made him the recipient of Africa's premier research award in 2008, the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award.