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Stefaan Blancke
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Stefaan Blancke (born 1976) is a Belgian sceptic and philosopher of science, who received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2011 from Ghent University.[1]
Education and research[edit]
In 2011, Blancke received a doctorate in philosophy from Ghent University, Belgium, for his dissertation Towards an integrated understanding of creationism in Europe.[1] The dissertation consists of a number of papers published by Blancke and others over several years, including an analysis of Intelligent Design, a discussion of creationism in Europe,[2] and an extensive analysis of creationism in the Netherlands[3] supplemented with a number of observations and recommendations regarding the teaching of evolution and creationism in European classrooms.
Blancke's main research interests lie with pseudoscience,[4] and creationism in particular, as well as evolutionary psychology[5] and anthropology.
Other activities[edit]
Blancke is a semi-prominent sceptic in Belgium, having published several articles on sceptic website Skepp, of which three deal with creationism in Belgium and the Netherlands, and one with anthroposophy.
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Blancke, Stefaan (2011). Towards an integrated understanding of creationism in Europe. Historical, philosophical and educational perspectives (Ph.D.). Ghent: Universiteit Gent: Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte. (doctoral thesis)
- Blancke, Stefaan; De Smedt, Johan (2013). "Evolved to be irrational? Evolutionary and cognitive foundations of pseudosciences". In Pigliucci, Massimo; Boudry, Maarten. The philosophy of pseudoscience. Reconsidering the demarcation problem. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 361-379.
- Blancke, Stefaan; Hjermitslev, Hans Henrik; Kjærgaard, Peter C., eds (2014). Creationism in Europe. Charles Village, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421415623.
Articles[edit]
Evolution, creationism and ID[edit]
Blancke, Stefaan (14 November 2010). "Creationism in the Netherlands". Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science 45 (4): 795-816.
Blancke, Stefaan; Hjermitslev, Hans Henrik; Kjærgaard, Peter C. (23 August 2013). "Creationism in Europe: Facts, Gaps, and Prospects". Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81 (4).
Boudry, Maarten; De Cruz, Helen; Blancke, Stefaan; De Smedt, Johan. "Het "universele zuur" van de evolutionaire psychologie?". Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 73 (2): 287-305.
Boudry, Maarten; Blancke, Stefaan; Brackman, Johan (2012). "Grist to the Mill of Anti-evolutionism: The Failed Strategy of Ruling the Supernatural Out of Science by Philosophical Fiat". Science & Education 21 (8): 1151-1165.
Boudry, Maarten; Blancke, Stefaan; Braeckman, Johan. "Irreducible incoherence and intelligent design: a look into the conceptual toolbox of a pseudoscience". The Quarterly Review of Biology 85 (4): 473-482.
Pseudoscience in general[edit]
- Blancke, Stefaan; Van Breusegem, Frank; De Jaeger, Geert; Braeckman, Johan; Van Montagu, Mark (July 2015). "Fatal attraction: the intuitive appeal of GMO opposition". Trends in Plant Science 20 (7): 414-418.
Boudry, Maarten; Blancke, Stefaan; Pigliucci, Massimo (26 July 2015). "What makes weird beliefs thrive? The epidemiology of pseudoscience". Philosophical Psychology 28 (8): 1177-1198.
External links[edit]
- Blancke at Academia
- Articles by Blance at Skepp (in
DutchFlemish) - Blancke at ResearchGate
- See the Wikipedia article on Maarten Boudry.
- See the Wikipedia article on Johan Braeckman.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Blancke, Stefaan (2011). Towards an integrated understanding of creationism in Europe. Historical, philosophical and educational perspectives (Ph.D.). Ghent: Universiteit Gent: Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte.
- ↑ Blancke, Stefaan; Hjermitslev, Hans Henrik; Kjærgaard, Peter C. (23 August 2013). "Creationism in Europe: Facts, Gaps, and Prospects". Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81 (4).
- ↑ Blancke, Stefaan (14 November 2010). "Creationism in the Netherlands". Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science 45 (4): 795-816.
- ↑ Blancke, Stefaan; De Smedt, Johan (2013). "Evolved to be irrational? Evolutionary and cognitive foundations of pseudosciences". In Pigliucci, Massimo; Boudry, Maarten. The philosophy of pseudoscience. Reconsidering the demarcation problem. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 361-379.
- ↑ Boudry, Maarten; De Cruz, Helen; Blancke, Stefaan; De Smedt, Johan. "Het "universele zuur" van de evolutionaire psychologie?". Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 73 (2): 287-305.