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Maarten Boudry

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#2730

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Epistemology

#179

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#225

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Logic

#1346

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#2072

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Maarten Boudry's Degrees

PhD Philosophy Ghent University
Masters Philosophy Ghent University

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According to Wikipedia, Maarten Boudry is a Dutch-speaking Belgian philosopher and skeptic. He has been a researcher and teaching member of the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University since 2006. To date, he has published over 30 articles in various philosophy of science journals.

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Maarten Boudry's Published Works

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Published Works

Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (2013) (163)
How Not to Attack Intelligent Design Creationism: Philosophical Misconceptions About Methodological Naturalism (2010) (119)
Why Machine-Information Metaphors are Bad for Science and Science Education (2011) (75)
The mismeasure of machine: Synthetic biology and the trouble with engineering metaphors. (2013) (72)
What makes weird beliefs thrive? The epidemiology of pseudoscience (2015) (54)
How convenient! The epistemic rationale of self-validating belief systems (2012) (50)
Disbelief in belief: On the cognitive status of supernatural beliefs (2016) (47)
The Fake, the Flimsy, and the Fallacious: Demarcating Arguments in Real Life (2015) (46)
Natural-Born Arguers: Teaching How to Make the Best of Our Reasoning Abilities (2017) (45)
Evolutionary Approaches to Epistemic Justification (2011) (44)
Immunizing Strategies and Epistemic Defense Mechanisms (2011) (44)
Prove it! The Burden of Proof Game in Science vs. Pseudoscience Disputes (2014) (38)
The Philosophy of Pseudoscience (2013) (32)
Why Do Irrational Beliefs Mimic Science? The Cultural Evolution of Pseudoscience (2017) (31)
The Implications of the Cognitive Sciences for the Relation Between Religion and Science Education: The Case of Evolutionary Theory (2012) (30)
Dealing with creationist challenges. What European biology teachers might expect in the classroom (2011) (28)
Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience (2010) (25)
Natural Selection Does Care about Truth (2014) (24)
Can evolution get us off the hook? Evaluating the ecological defence of human rationality (2015) (19)
Loki's wager and Laudan's error: on genuine and territorial demarcation (2013) (19)
Loki's Wager and Laudan's Error (2013) (18)
Where the Design Argument Goes Wrong: Auxiliary Assumptions and Unification* (2011) (18)
In Mysterious Ways: On petitionary prayer and subtle forms of supernatural causation (2011) (17)
Parasites of the mind. Why cultural theorists need the meme’s eye view (2018) (15)
Science unlimited? On the challenges of scientism (2017) (15)
Does Science Presuppose Naturalism (or Anything at All)? (2013) (15)
Grist to the Mill of Anti-evolutionism: The Failed Strategy of Ruling the Supernatural Out of Science by Philosophical Fiat (2012) (14)
Reasonable Irrationality: the Role of Reasons in the Diffusion of Pseudoscience (2019) (14)
The Dark Side of the Loon. Explaining the Temptations of Obscurantism (2015) (13)
Replicate after reading: on the extraction and evocation of cultural information (2018) (12)
Fakers, fanatics, and false dilemmas: Reply to Van Leeuwen (2016) (9)
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy (2018) (8)
Plus ultra : why science does not have limits (2018) (5)
The hypothesis that saves the day: ad hoc reasoning in pseudoscience (2013) (5)
Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem (2022) (5)
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers. On memes and cultural parasites (2018) (5)
Vindicating science – by bringing it down (2018) (4)
Beyond Physics? On the Prospects of Finding a Meaningful Oracle (2014) (4)
Psychological closure does not entail cognitive closure. A response to McGinn. (2017) (4)
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem (2021) (4)
The Relentless Retreat: Kelly James Clark’s Religion and the Sciences of Origins (2015) (4)
Truth and Consequences: When Is It Rational to Accept Falsehoods? (2019) (4)
Alvin Plantinga: Where the Conflict Really Lies. Science, Religion and Naturalism (2012) (4)
Unintended institutional facts: on the structure of psychoanalytic hermeneutics (2009) (3)
‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions (2019) (3)
Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science (2011) (3)
Simulation of biological evolution under attack, but not really: a response to Meester (2011) (3)
Why the Demarcation Problem Matters (2013) (3)
Biblical and theistic arguments against the evolutionary argument against naturalism (2017) (2)
Psychoanalytic Facts as Unintended Institutional Facts (2012) (2)
Pseudoscience as a Negative Outcome of Scientific Dialogue: A Pragmatic-Naturalistic Approach to the Demarcation Problem (2021) (2)
Parasites of the mind. How cultural representations can subvert human interests (2017) (2)
The end of science? On human cognitive limitations and how to overcome them (2020) (2)
Why We Should Be Suspicious of Conspiracy Theories: A Novel Demarcation Problem (2022) (1)
Disbelief about belief : why secular academics do not understand the motivations of religious fundamentalists (2019) (1)
What Social Constructivism Ought to Tell Us About Psychoanalysis (And What This Would Reveal About Itself) (2008) (1)
Fabricating communication: the case of the Belgian coma patient (2010) (1)
Methodological Naturalism as an Intrinsic Property of Science: Grist to the Mill of Intelligent Design Theory (2009) (1)
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist” (2022) (1)
Enjoying your cultural cheesecake: Why believers are sincere and shamans are not charlatans (2018) (1)
Whence pseudoscience?: an epidemiological approach (2017) (1)
Dying for your group or for your faith? On the power of belief (2018) (0)
Does Science Presuppose Naturalism (2013) (0)
Dossier GSM-straling (2011) (0)
The end of science? On human cognitive limitations and how to overcome them (2020) (0)
A most unnatural alliance (2017) (0)
Chapter 6 Blame the Norm . On the Challenge of Ecological Rationality (2016) (0)
The Implications of the Cognitive Sciences for the Relation Between Religion and Science Education: The Case of Evolutionary Theory (2011) (0)
Replicate after reading: on the extraction and evocation of cultural information (2018) (0)
Exploring the hinterland of science (2011) (0)
Freud's unintended institutional facts (2011) (0)
The cultural buck stops somewhere: the origin of supernatural belief and the role of agency detection (2018) (0)
The end of inquiry? How to overcome human cognitive limitations (2018) (0)
Do free will skeptics swallow their own medicine? (2021) (0)
Attack of the Memes! How cultural parasites can subvert human interests (2016) (0)
Diagnosing pseudoscience in real life: the symptomatic approach (2019) (0)
The Fake, the Flimsy, and the Fallacious: Demarcating Arguments in Real Life (2015) (0)
Abolish the freedom of religion (2017) (0)
The fallacy fork : why it’s time to get rid of fallacy theory (2017) (0)
The Myth of Senseless Violence and the Problem of Terrorism (2018) (0)
Alvin Plantinga: Where the Conflict Really Lies. Science, Religion and Naturalism (2012) (0)
Beyond Physics? On the Prospects of Finding a Meaningful Oracle (2014) (0)
Prove it! The Burden of Proof Game in Science vs. Pseudoscience Disputes (2013) (0)
Does Science Presuppose Naturalism (or Anything at All)? (2013) (0)
What’s in a meme? The role of replication in cultural evolution (2017) (0)
The Sin of Scientism: Response to Clark (2015) (0)
Don’t blame the norms! On the challenges of ecological rationality (2016) (0)
Grist to the Mill of Anti-evolutionism: The Failed Strategy of Ruling the Supernatural Out of Science by Philosophical Fiat (2012) (0)
Religion, creationism and biological education: a cognitive perspective (2010) (0)

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