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Prof. Dr. Erik Weber
Prof. Dr. Erik Weber
erik.weber@ugent.be
Contact details
Academia
Department
Department of Philosophy and moral sciences
Research group(s)
CLPS - Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Curriculum Vitae
pdf
Research Focus
Philosophy
Research Period
Contemporary
20th Century
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
The organisation of truth commissions. An epistemological analysis
(
2016
-
2020
)
Supporting cross-disciplinary collaboration using insights from computational linguistics and philosophy of science
(
2015
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2019
)
Optimising peer review and consensus formation
(
2015
-
2016
)
The concept of art in art history
(
2015
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2016
)
Ethical guidelines for scientific research in the humanities
(
2015
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2016
)
Explanatory power of mechanistic and functional explanations
(
2014
-
2017
)
An evidence-based framework for the normative macrostudy of science
(
2014
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2017
)
Varieties of causation in genetics
(
2014
-
2018
)
Physical causation versus causation in physics. Physical setups and causal relations in practice
(
2013
-
2017
)
The ethics of history in a pluralistic democracy
(
2013
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2016
)
Scientific understanding in medicine
(
2011
-
2015
)
Science, expertise and democracy
(
2010
-
2014
)
Evaluating the aims and methods of defining art. A metaphilosophical investigation regarding the question ‘what is art?’
(
2010
-
2015
)
Pragmatic theory of scientific explanation
(
2009
-
2013
)
Unification as an explanatory and epistemic value in scientific practice and theory
(
2009
-
2016
)
Contextual and formal-logical approach to scientific problem solving processes
(
2007
-
2014
)
Interdisciplinarity, causation and explanatory pluralism in the biomedical sciences
(
2007
-
2010
)
Rethinking the central concepts from philosophy of science for laws in the special sciences and formulating the resulting theory in a logically precise way
(
2004
-
2008
)
Development of adaptive logics for the study of central topics in contemporary philosophy of science. Towards a new formal philosophy of science
(
2001
-
2008
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Indian realism from contemporary perspective
(
2013
-
2017
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Van Bouwel, Jeroen, and Erik Weber. “Explanation.”
SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods
. Ed. Paul Atkinson et al. Sage, 2018. Print.
Urbaniak, Rafal, Erik Weber, and Mariusz Urbanski. “Logic in the Wild, 9–10 November.”
The Reasoner
2018 : 3–4. Print.
Weber, Erik, and Inge De Bal. “Causation, Lawhood and Determinism in Electoral Systems Research : Why ‘Duverger’s Law’ Deserves to Be Called a Law.”
FRENCH POLITICS
16 (2018): 80–95. Print.
Weber, Erik, and Leen De Vreese. “Comparative Causation at Multiple Levels and Across Scientific Disciplines.”
AXIOMATHES
27 (2017): 667–683. Print.
van Eck, Dingmar, and Erik Weber. “In Defense of Co-existing Engineering Meanings of Function.”
AI EDAM-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS AND MANUFACTURING
31 (2017): 55–68. Print.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Master’s Dissertation
Philosophy of Science I
Scientific Explanation
Metaphysics
Foundations of Science from a Political and Societal Perspective
Philosophy of Science: Capita Selecta
DISSERTATION
Philosophy of Biomedical and Social Sciences
Philosophical Methodology I
Philosophy
