Articles
Blancke, Stefaan (2025) Objectify and commit. How reasons bring about cultural change and progress. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy.
Blancke, Stefaan (2024) Historical myths as commitment devices. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47 e175. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2023) The puzzle of belief requires an evolutionary key to be solved. Cognitive Science.
Blancke, Stefaan (2023) Puritanism as moral advertising helps solve the puzzle of ineffective moralization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Blancke, Stefaan (2023) Nothing about collective irrationalities makes sense except in the light of cooperation. Philosophical Psychology 36 (5): 990-1010.
Blancke, Stefaan (2022) Science as a moral system. Synthese 200 (454): 1-18.
Blancke, Stefaan, and Maarten Boudry (2022) “Trust me, I’m a scientist!” How philosophy of science can help explain why science deserves primacy in dealing with societal problems. Science & Education 31: 1141-1154.
Blancke, Stefaan, Taner Edis, Johan Braeckman, Sven Ove Hansson, Asheley R. Landrum, and Andrew Shtulman (2022) Editorial: The psychology of pseudoscience. Frontiers in Psychology.
Altay, Sacha, Marlène Schwartz, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Aurelien Allard, Stefaan Blancke, and Hugo Mercier (2022) Scaling up interactive argumentation by providing arguments with a chatbot. Nature Human Behaviour 6: 579-592. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, and Maarten Boudry (2021) Pseudoscience as a negative outcome of scientific dialogue. A pragmatic-naturalistic approach to the demarcation problem. International Studies for the Philosophy of Science 34 (3): 183-198.
Heintz, Christophe, Stefaan Blancke, and Thom Scott-Phillips (2019) Methods for studying cultural attraction. Evolutionary Anthropology 28 (1): 18-20. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, and Johan Braeckman (2019) Reasonable irrationality: The role of reasons in the diffusion of pseudoscience. Journal of Cognition and Culture 19 (5): 432-449. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, and Gilles Denis (2018) Bringing Darwin into the humanities and the social sciences: Cultural evolution and its philosophical implications. Introduction to special issue Darwin in the Humanities and the Social Sciences in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46 (2). Pdf
Scott-Phillips, Thom, Stefaan Blancke, and Christophe Heintz (2018) Four misunderstandings about cultural attraction. Evolutionary Anthropology 27: 163-172. Pdf
Tanghe, Koen, Alexis De Tiège, Lieven Pauwels, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman (2018) What’s wrong with the modern evolutionary synthesis? A reply to Welch. Biology & Philosophy 33: 23. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2018) Islamic modernity and the challenges for secular liberalism. Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science 53 (1): 274-287. Pdf
De Tiège, Alexis, Blancke, Stefaan, and Johan Braeckman (2018) The modern versus extended evolutionary synthesis – Sketch of an intra-genomic gene’s eye view for the evolutionary-genetic underpinning of epigenetic and developmental evolution. Life Science Press 2 (1): 70-78. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, and Johan Braeckman (2018) Whence pseudoscience? An epidemiological approach. Metode Science Studies Journal 8:133-139. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Wim Grunewald, and Geert De Jaeger (2017) De-problematizing GMOs: suggestions for communicating about genetic engineering. Trends in Biotechnology 85 (3): 185-86. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, and Massimo Pigliucci (2017) Why do irrational beliefs mimic science? The cultural evolution of pseudoscience. Theoria 83 (1): 78-97. DOI: 10.1111/theo.12109. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Frank Van Breusegem, Geert De Jaeger, Johan Braeckman, and Marc Van Montagu (2016) The need to explain GMO opposition: Reply to Couée. Trends in Plant Science. 21 (2): 92. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.12.001. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Frank Van Breusegem, Geert De Jaeger, Johan Braeckman, and Marc Van Montagu (2015) Fatal attraction: The intuitive appeal of GMO opposition. Trends in Plant Science 20 (7): 414-418. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.03.011. Pdf
Boudry, Maarten, Stefaan Blancke, and Massimo Pigliucci (2015) What makes weird beliefs thrive? The epidemiology of pseudoscience. Philosophical Psychology 28 (8): 1177-1198. DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2014.971946. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Tammy Schellens, Ronald Soetaert, Hilde Van Keer, and Johan Braeckman (2014) From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection. Science & Education 24 (4): 793-808. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2014, invited paper for special issue on Emotions and practical philosophy) Are emotions reliable guides for policy? An evolutionary approach. Azafea. Revista de Filosofia 16: 39-56. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Johan Braeckman, and Peter C. Kjærgaard (2013) Creationism in Europe: facts, gaps and prospects. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81 (4): 996-1028. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2013) Catholic responses to evolutionary theory, 1859-2009: Local influences and mid-scale patterns. Journal of Religious History 37 (3): 353-368. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz, Maarten Boudry, and Johan Braeckman (2012) The implications of the cognitive sciences for the relation between religion and science education: the case of evolutionary theory. Science & Education 21 (8): 1167-1184. Pdf
Boudry, Maarten, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman (2012) Grist to the mill of anti-evolutionism: The failed strategy of ruling the supernatural out of science by philosophical fiat. Science & Education 21(8): 1151-1166. Pdf
De Cruz, Helen, Maarten Boudry, Johan De Smedt, and Stefaan Blancke (2011) Evolutionary approaches to epistemic justification. Dialectica 65 (4): 517-535. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, Johan Braeckman, Johan De Smedt, and Helen De Cruz (2011) Dealing with creationist challenges. What European biology teachers might expect in the classroom. Journal of Biological Education 45 (4): 176-182. Pdf
Boudry, Maarten, Helen de Cruz, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan De Smedt (2011) Het “universele zuur” van de evolutionaire psychologie? Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 73 (2): 287-305. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, and Johan Braeckman (2011) Simulation of biological evolution under attack, but not really: A response to Meester. Biology and Philosophy 26 (1): 113-118. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2010) Creationism in the Netherlands. Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science 45 (4): 791-816. Pdf
Boudry, Maarten, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman (2010) How not to attack Intelligent Design Creationism: Philosophical misconceptions about Methodological Naturalism. Foundations of Science 15 (3): 227-244. Pdf
Boudry, Maarten, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman (2010) Irreducible incoherence and Intelligent Design. A look into the conceptual toolbox of a pseudoscience. Quarterly Review of Biology 85 (4): 473-482. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2004) Mens en mensaap in de Verlichting: Edward Tyson en Lord Monboddo. Jaarboek voor Ecologische Geschiedenis 2002, pp. 55-66. Pdf
Book chapters
Blancke, Stefaan (2025) Over inzicht, illusies en reputatie. In: Dooremalen, Hans (ed.) Vonken van Inzicht. Liber Amicorum Filip Buekens. Tilburg: Departement Filosofie Tilburg University, pp. 49-61.
De Schrijver, J. Blancke, S., Cornelissen, E., Sermeus, J., Dunlop, L. (2022) Are we allowed to tinker with (human) DNA? Addressing socioscientific issues through philosophical dialogue – the case of genetic engineering. In: Sá-Pinto, X., Beniermann, A., Børsen, T., Georgiou, M., Jeffries, A., Pessoa, P., Sousa, B., & Zeidler, D.L. (Eds.) Learning Evolution Through Socioscientific Issues. Aveiro: UA Editora, pp. 197-216. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2022) Mens of dier? Het statuut van de mensaap tijdens de verlichting. In: Braeckman, Johan en Linda Van Speybroeck (eds.) Fascinerend leven. Een geschiedenis van de biologie. Gent: Academia Press, pp. 291-304. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Koen Tanghe, and Johan Braeckman (2018) Intuitions in science education and the public understanding of science. In: Rutten, Kris, Stefaan Blancke and Ronald Soetaert (eds.), Perspectives on science and culture. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, pp. 223-241. Pdf
Rutten, Kris, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert (2018) Introduction: Science and Culture in the Humanities. In: Rutten, Kris, Stefaan Blancke and Ronald Soetaert (eds.), Perspectives on science and culture. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.
Blancke, Stefaan and Johan Braeckman (2015) There is grandeur in this view of life: The beauty of evolution. In: Knight, Christopher & Christian Burvenich (eds.) De fabulis, artibus et scientiis: Historia physiologiae; Ghent: Ghent University., pp. 92-101. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2014) Nawoord. In: Grunewald, Wim en Jo Bury, De GGO-revolutie. Waarom biotechnologie in de landbouw een grote troef is voor mens en milieu. Tielt: Lannoo, pp. 157-162.
Blancke, Stefaan, Abraham C. Flipse and Johan Braeckman (2014) The Low Countries. In: Blancke, Stefaan, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev & Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds.) Creationism in Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), pp. 65-84. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev & Peter C. Kjærgaard (2014) Introduction: European creationism or creationism in Europe? In: Blancke, Stefaan, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev & Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds.) Creationism in Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), pp. 1-14.
Blancke, Stefaan and Johan Braeckman (2014) “You can’t make a make a monkey out of me”. Over creationisme, van Scopes tot Intelligent Design. In: Praet Danny, Nel Grillaert & Steff Coppieters (eds.), Christendom en filosofie. Opstellen over wijsbegeerte, wereldbeeld en wetenschappen van het antieke christendom over Nietzsche tot fundamentalisme vandaag. Gent: Academia Press (Gingko Series), pp. 215-231. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan and Johan De Smedt (2013) Evolved to be irrational? Evolutionary and cognitive foundations of pseudosciences. In: The Philosophy of Pseudoscience. In: Pigliucci, Massimo & Maarten Boudry (eds.), Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 361-379. Pdf
Books
Blancke, Stefaan (2017). Darwin na de schepping. Modern creationisme en intelligent design. Brussels: ASP.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Evolutietheorie. Antwerp: Luster.
Edited Books and Special Collections
Blancke, Stefaan, Johan Braeckman, Taner Edis, Sven-Ove Hansson, Asheley Landrum, Andrew Shtulman, and Corinne Zimmerman (2021) The psychology of pseudoscience. Frontiers in Psychology.
Blancke, Stefaan & Gilles Denis (2018) Darwin in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
Rutten, Kris, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert (2018) Perspectives on science and culture. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.
Blancke, Stefaan, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjaergaard (2014) Creationism in Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Proceedings
Tanghe, Koen, Alexis De Tiège, and Stefaan Blancke (2016) Linguistic reference in science: problems and progress. SGEM Vienna Hofburg 2016, pp. 603-610.
Blancke, Stefaan (2014) Lord Monboddo’s Ourang Outang and the origin and progress of language. In: Marco Pina & Nathalie Gontier (eds.) The evolution of social communication in primates: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, pp. 31-44. Pdf
Maex Joke, Anneleen De Laet, Charlotte De Backer, Stefaan Blancke, Johan Braeckman, Job De Meyere (2010) The impact of an education program about evolution on the shift from teleological to evolutionary explanations among Belgian children around the age of ten. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2: 2539-2543. Pdf
Braeckman, Johan, and Stefaan Blancke (2009) Een korte geschiedenis van het evolutionaire denken. Evolutie en darwinisme anno 2009. Contactforum Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Brussel: 43-50. Pdf
Book reviews
Blancke, Stefaan (2019) Review of God’s word or human reasoning: An inside perspective on creationism by Jonathan Kane, Emily Willoughby, and T. Michael Keese (Portland: Inkwater Press, 2017). Journal of Cognitive Historiography 4 (2): 283-285. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2017) Understanding science, naturally. Book review of Joseph Rouse, Articulating the world. Conceptual understanding and the scientific image. Science & Education 26 (7-9): 1059-1062. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2015) Book review Matt Rossano, Supernatural selection: How religion evolved. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 9 (1): 122-124. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2013) A fascinating guide to creationist minds. Book review of “Among the creationists. Dispatches from the anti-evolutionist frontline”. Metascience 22 (2): 435-437. Pdf
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Book review Raf de Bont, Darwins kleinkinderen. De evolutietheorie in België. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. 6 (4): 166-67. Pdf
Articles in magazines
Blancke, Stefaan (2019) Pseudoscience and the end of dialogue. Spokes.
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, and Johan Braeckman (2018) De epidemiologie van pseudowetenschap. Wonder en is Gheen Wonder.
Blancke, Stefaan, Maarten Boudry, and Johan Braeckman (2018) Ideeën als virussen. EOS Wetenschap: 34-37.
Blancke, Stefaan (2017) Creationism in Europe. Skeptical Inquirer 41 (1): 48-51.
Blancke, Stefaan (2016) Creationisme in Europa. Wonder en is gheen Wonder. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap en Rede. 16: 5-9.
Blancke, Stefaan (2016) Ggo’s? Yuck! De intuïtieve verleiding van de weerstand tegen genetisch gemodificeerde organismen. De Geus 48 (4): 11-14.
Blancke, Stefaan (2015) Warum wir intuitiv gegen Gentechnik sind. GEO Magazine, pp. 86-87.
Blancke, Stefaan (2011) Creabel viert feest! Verslag van het eerste luik van een tweedaags symposium naar aanleiding van het twintigjarig bestaan van de Belgische creationistische organisatie. Wonder en is gheen Wonder. Tijdschrift voor wetenschap en rede. 11 (4): 20-22.
Blancke Stefaan (2010) Book review Hendrik Van den Berg, Koude rillingen over de rug van Charles Darwin. Aktief, no. 1: 24-25.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Debatteren met creationisten. Wonder en is gheen Wonder. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap en Rede 9 (1): 19-21.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Dutch, Belgian creationist groups unite to bring anti-evolution message to six million. Skeptical Inquirer 33 (1): 7.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Nederlandse “scheppingsbrochure” nu ook in Vlaanderen? Wonder en is gheen Wonder. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap en Rede 9 (3): 26-27.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Exporting creationism: Dutch creationist leaflet now to be distributed in Belgium. Reports of the National Center for Science Education. 29 (5): 7-9.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Nieuwsflash “Wat geloof jij?” Wonder en is gheen wonder. Tijdschrift voor wetenschap en rede. 8 (4): 22.
Blancke, Stefaan (2008) Tegen evolutie en de duivel. Aktief, no. 3: 26-28.
Blancke, Stefaan (2008) De “missing link” van het creationisme. Wonder en is gheen wonder. Tijdschrift voor wetenschap en rede 8 (3): 14-18.
Blancke, Stefaan (2008) Debatteren met creationisten? Aktief, no. 4: 17-19.
Blancke, Stefaan (2008) Wetenschap versus antiwetenschap. Dwars 45 (7): 16.
Blog posts
Blancke, Stefaan (2024) The psychology of pseudoscience. Imperfect Cognitions.
Blancke, Stefaan (2023) De sociale rol van overtuigingen. Kwintessens.
Blancke, Stefaan (2020) Kritisch denken kritisch bekeken. Tijd voor meer vertrouwen? Kwintessens.
Blancke, Stefaan (2020) “Wat is hier de bedoeling van?” Hoe kunst communicatie kaapt. Bij Nader Inzien.
Blancke, Stefaan (2019) Over papieren twijfel, wetenschappelijke waarheid en religieuze reanimatie. Kwintessens.
Blancke, Stefaan (2019) Van God los. Boekbespreking van Margaret C. Jacobs: The Secular Enlightenment (Princeton UP, 2019), Kwintessens.
Blancke, Stefaan (2019) Are selves cultural attractors? International Cognition and Culture Institute.
Blancke, Stefaan (2018) The space of reasons and the generation of knowledge. International Cognition and Culture Institute.
Blancke, Stefaan (2018) De ruimte der redenen. Kwintessens.
Blancke, Stefaan, and Peter C. Kjærgaard (2016) Creationism in Europe. Scientific American.
Blancke, Stefaan (2015) Why people oppose GMOs even though science says they are safe. Mind Matters.
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Grootschalig internationaal onderzoek peilt naar houding ten opzichte van de evolutietheorie. Evolutietheorie.ugent.be
Blancke, Stefaan (2009) Creationistenfolder “Evolutie of schepping. Wat geloof jij”? nu ook in Vlaanderen. Evolutietheorie.ugent.be
Blancke, Stefaan (2008) Waarom is de muizenvalanalogie van Michael Behe misleidend en wetenschappelijk niet overtuigend? Evolutietheorie.ugent.be
Blancke, Stefaan (2008) Waarom Intelligent Design geen wetenschappelijk alternatief is voor de evolutietheorie. Evolutietheorie.ugent.be
Op-eds
Blancke, stefaan en Maarten Boudry (2020) Het Coronabewijs, goed voor alle gebruik. De Standaard, 22/04/2020.
Blancke, Stefaan, Patrick Loobuyck, and Maarten Boudry (2020) Geen spielerei. De Standaard, 30/03/2020.
Duurzame landbouw dankzij ggo’s, op-ed in Het Belang van Limburg, 28 september 2013, met Lieve Gheysen , Geert Angenon, Johan Braeckman, Maarten Boudry, Geert De Jaeger, Wim Grunewald, ea.
Boudry, Maarten and Stefaan Blancke (2009) De theorie die een feit werd. De Standaard, 19 December.
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