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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
20th Century
Contemporary
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
The organisation of truth commissions. An epistemological analysis
(
2016
-
2020
)
Ethical guidelines for scientific research in the humanities
(
2015
-
2016
)
Supporting cross-disciplinary collaboration using insights from computational linguistics and philosophy of science
(
2015
-
2019
)
Optimising peer review and consensus formation
(
2015
-
2016
)
The concept of art in art history
(
2015
-
2016
)
Explanatory power of mechanistic and functional explanations
(
2014
-
2017
)
An evidence-based framework for the normative macrostudy of science
(
2014
-
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
-
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
)
Unification as an explanatory and epistemic value in scientific practice and theory
(
2009
-
2016
)
Pragmatic theory of scientific explanation
(
2009
-
2013
)
Interdisciplinarity, causation and explanatory pluralism in the biomedical sciences
(
2007
-
2010
)
Contextual and formal-logical approach to scientific problem solving processes
(
2007
-
2014
)
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
Key publications
Scientific explanation
(2013
)
Erik Weber
Jeroen Van Bouwel
Leen De Vreese
Most recent publications
Weber, Erik. “Alfred Wegeners Theorie van Continentendrift En Haar Rivalen. Rationele Onenigheid En Rationele Consensus in de Aardwetenschappen.”
Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Wijsbegeerte
, vol. 113, 2021, pp. 25–53, doi:DOI: 10.5117/ANTW2021.1.002.WEBE.
Weber, Erik, and Inge De Bal. “Redactioneel.”
ALGEMEEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE
, vol. 113, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1–1.
Weber, Erik, and Julie Mennes. “Characteristics of Integration in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Urban Research and Practice.”
Enabling the City : Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice
, edited by Josefine Fokdal et al., Routledge, 2021.
Weber, Erik, and Inge De Bal, editors. “Themanummer ‘Wetenschapsfilosofie Toegepast: Filosofische Analyses van Mijlpalen Uit de Ontwikkeling van de Natuurwetenschappen.’”
Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Wijsbegeerte
, vol. 113, no. 1, 2021.
Van Bouwel, Jeroen, and Erik Weber. “Explanation.”
Sage Research Methods
, edited by Paul Atkinson et al., Sage, 2020, doi:10.4135/9781526421036769256.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Philosophy of Science II
Developing and Writing Research Proposals in Philosophy
Philosophy of Biomedical and Social Sciences
Master’s Dissertation
Human Sciences
