Jean Paul Van Bendegem
| Jean Paul Van Bendegem | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 28, 1953 Ghent, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Known for | Strict finitism |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
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.
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.
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