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Books Frederic Geurts: Unbalanced, Antony Gormley: According to a Given Mean Similar People Diederik Aerts, Dov Gabbay, Diderik Batens | ||
Prof dr jean paul van bendegem over de rol van onderwijs in de maatschappij
Jean Paul Van Bendegem (born 28 March 1953 in Ghent) is a mathematician, a philosopher of science, and a prominent professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels.
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- Prof dr jean paul van bendegem over de rol van onderwijs in de maatschappij
- Waarom jean paul van bendegem geen christen is
- Career
- References
Waarom jean paul van bendegem geen christen is
Career
Van Bendegem was the dean of the faculty of Arts and Philosophy, and is currently head of the CLWF (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science) at the same university.
He is an honorary chairman of SKEPP (Research Society for Critical Evaluation of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal), an organisation that is prepared to pay 10,000 euros to anyone who can prove the validity of a paranormal claim.
Van Bendegem is the university's representative to the CNRL–NCNL (French: Centre National de Recherches de Logique, Dutch: Nationaal Centrum voor Navorsingen in de Logica, English: National Centre for Investigations in Logic). He is chief editor of their quarterly magazine Logique et Analyse.
In mathematics, he is a strict finitist.
