Author: Etienne Vermeersch

Etienne Vermeersch is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Ghent, Belgium, which he formerly served as vice rector. A renowned Belgian moral philosopher and classical philologist, he is one of the founding fathers of the abortion and euthanasia law in Belgium. He served five years as a Jesuit priest, broke with his faith at age twenty-five, and later became an atheist and naturalist. He is also one of the leading skeptics in Europe.