Jean Paul Van Bendegem (born 28 March 1953[1] in Ghent)[2] is a mathematician, a philosopher of science, and a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels.
[citation needed] Van Bendegem wrote his PhD thesis in philosophy on the subject of finitism under the supervision of Diderik Batens while at Ghent University.
The content of the thesis was on notation systems, number theory, analysis, physics and logic in a finite empirical framework.
Van Bendegem was the dean of the faculty of Arts and philosophy, and was until his retirement in September 2018 head of the CLPS (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science) at the same university.
He is an honorary chairman of SKEPP[3] (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.