Werner Callebaut (October 7, 1952 – November 6, 2014) was a professor at the

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, scientific director of the

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, editor and chief of '' Biological Theory'', and president of The

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Biography

He attended high school at Koninklijk Atheneum

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, Belgium. During his undergraduate studies at the

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, he was highly influenced by

Leo Apostel Leo Apostel (Antwerp, 4 September 1925 – Ghent, 10 August 1995) was a Belgian philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap b ...

and

Etienne Vermeersch Etienne Vermeersch (2 May 1934, Sint-Michiels, Bruges – 18 January 2019, Ghent) was a Belgian moral philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. He is one of the founding fathers of the abortion, euthanasia law, and the Law on Patients' R ...

. In 1983, he received a

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in philosophy from the University of Ghent with a dissertation entitled ''Contribution to a General Theory of Rationality on Evolutionary Foundations—With an Application to the Organization of Scientific Knowledge''. In 1995 he became a professor of philosophy at

. Between 1995 and 1999, he was a visiting fellow at Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) and, in 1999, he moved to Vienna, Austria to become scientific manager of KLI. In 2006, he became editor and chief of ''Biological Theory''. In 2013, he was elected president of The

(ISHPSSB). He unexpectedly and untimely passed away in his sleep.

''Taking the Naturalistic Turn''

In his 1993 book ''Taking the naturalistic turn, or how real philosophy of science is done'', Callebaut interviewed a number of philosophers of on key topics in the philosophy of science. He then wove together the interviews into conversations on these key topics in the philosophy of science.

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Werner Callebaut (1952–2014)
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