Stefaan Blancke

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Blancke, engaged in deep philosophical thinking.

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 ~~Dutch~~ Flemish)
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.

[thesis-1] 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.

[C3-2] 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).

[C5-3] Blancke, Stefaan (14 November 2010). "Creationism in the Netherlands". Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science 45 (4): 795-816.

[4] 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.

[5] Boudry, Maarten; De Cruz, Helen; Blancke, Stefaan; De Smedt, Johan. "Het "universele zuur" van de evolutionaire psychologie?". Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 73 (2): 287-305.

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