Professor Etienne Vermeersch (Sint-Michiels- Brugge, 2 May 1934) is a renowned Belgian (moral) philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. Sint-Michiels is a suburb of Bruges, in the province of West Flanders, Belgium. Bruges (Brugge is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language In ordinary usage skepticism or scepticism ( Greek 'σκέπτομαι' skeptomai, to look about to consider see also spelling differences An opinion is a Person 's Ideas and thoughts towards something which it is either impossible to verify the truth of or the truth of which is thought unimportant to Debate ( American English) or debating ( British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational Argument. He's one of the founding fathers of the abortion and euthanasia law in Belgium. An Euthanasia (literally "good death" in Ancient Greek) refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner He's also former Vice-Rector of the Ghent University. The word rector ("ruler" from the Latin regere and Rector meaning "Teacher" In Latin has a number of different meanings but all of them indicate an academic Ghent University (in Dutch Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the three large Flemish universities.
Vermeersch became atheist after five years Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Atheism The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order He broke with his belief when he was 25, like most of his colleagues at the time. After he became a philosophical materialist. The Philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is Matter, and is considered a form of Physicalism. In the 1990s there was some commotion in the Belgian media when Vermeersch wrote a rational-scientific article titled 'Why the Christian God cannot exist'. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding The term "Godhead" The term Godhead is a term denoting deity or divinity
Career
Etienne Vermeersch has an MA in classical philology and in philosophy. Classical Philology is the study of the language systems of Latin, specifically ancient Latin and of Ancient Greek. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language In 1965 he obtained his PhD on the philosophical implications of information theory and cybernetics at Ghent University, Belgium. Information theory is a branch of Applied mathematics and Electrical engineering involving the quantification of Information. Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the Structure of Complex systems especially Communication processes control mechanisms and Feedback He became a professor at Ghent University in 1967 and taught introductory courses in philosophy and in the philosophy of science, as well as courses in 20th-century philosophy and in philosophical anthropology. Philosophy of science is the study of assumptions foundations and implications of Science. Philosophical anthropology is the attempt to unify disparate ways of understanding behaviour of Humans as both creatures of their Social environments and creators of
He is working on the foundations of the social sciences, on the philosophical aspects of research into informatics, on artificial intelligence, and on general social and ethical problems, mainly with regard to bioethics, environmental philosophy, and cultural philosophy. The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in Biology and Medicine. Environmental philosophy is a branch of Philosophy that is concerned with the Natural environment and our place within it
He was a vice rector at Ghent University from 1993 until 1997. He was, among others, a member of the Flemish Board for Scientific Policy, of the governmental board of the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology, of the Environmental Board of Flanders, and of the Federal Board for Scientific Policy. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Biotechnology is Technology based on Biology, especially when used in Agriculture, Food science, and Medicine. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. He was also president of the Advisory Committee of Bioethics. Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in Biology and Medicine.
Etienne Vermeersch has published about 80 articles, about 10 lemmas in the (Flemish) Encyclopaedia of World Literature, many op-ed articles in newspapers and journals, three syllabi, and six books, among which An Epistemological Introduction to the Science of Man (1967), Current Philosophy (1970), and the bestseller The Panda's Eyes: An Environmentally Philosophical Essay (1988). At his retirement the book From Antigone to Dolly (1997) was published, an edited volume containing articles spanning his entire career. This article is about the daughter of Oedipus For the daughter of Eurytion see Antigone (daughter of Eurytion.
Professor Vermeersch is also a major Belgian skeptic. He is a founding member of SKEPP ('Research Society for Critical Evaluation of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal'). Pseudoscience is defined as a body of knowledge methodology belief or practice that is claimed to be Scientific or made to appear scientific but does not adhere to the Paranormal is an Umbrella term used to describe unusual Phenomena or experiences that lack an obvious Scientific explanation He has been lecturing and publishing on this topic for more than 40 years.
In the beginning of January 2005 he survived a second heart attack. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply
January 2008 Vermeersch was chosen by hundred prominent Flemish people as the most influential intellectual of Flanders[1]
External links
- ^ "The greatest intellectuals of Flanders" Knack, 22/01/2008
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