Johan Braeckman

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Johan Braeckman studied Philosophy, Human Ecology and Environmental History at the universities of Ghent, Brussels and Santa Barbara, California. He wrote a PhD on the philosophical aspects of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. At Ghent University (Belgium), he teaches courses on the history of philosophy and the history of science. Formerly, he taught courses on philosophical anthropology and bio-ethics at Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). So far, he (co-)supervised seventeen PhD students (on moral philosophy, history of science, the study of pseudoscience and irrationalism). He published books, articles and audio lectures on Darwin; on cultural aspects of the natural sciences; on critical thinking and on the history of philosophy. He is an active member of the Belgian Skeptical movement and regularly gives lectures on a variety of topics.

Email: Johan.braeckman@ugent.be