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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.

Education and research

In 2011, Blancke received a doctorate in philosophy from Ghent University, Belgium, for his dissertation Towards an integrated understanding of creationism in Europe. 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, and an extensive analysis of creationism in the Netherlands 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, and creationism in particular, as well as evolutionary psychology and anthropology.

Other activities

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

Books

• 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

Evolution, creationism and ID

• 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

• 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

• Blancke at Academia
• Articles by Blance at Skepp (in Dutch Flemish)
• Blancke at ResearchGate
• See the Wikipedia article on Maarten Boudry.
• See the Wikipedia article on Johan Braeckman.