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Prof. Dr. Erik Weber
Prof. Dr. Erik Weber
erik.weber@ugent.be
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
Problems and paradigms. Towards a normative, pragmatic epistemology of science for society
(
2024
-
2027
)
A philosophical investigation into the practice and the virtues of evidence-based policy
(
2023
-
2027
)
Explanation in explainable artificial intelligence
(
2023
-
2026
)
Mathematical Explanation: Why Does It Matter?
(
2021
-
2025
)
Towards a contextualist theory of cross-disciplinary knowledge-generation processes.
(
2020
-
2024
)
Causation and Genetic Diseases. A Philosophical Study of Causal Selection Practices in Epidemiology
(
2018
-
2023
)
Explanation in the Engineering Sciences
(
2017
-
2022
)
The organisation of truth commissions. An epistemological analysis
(
2016
-
2020
)
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
)
Ethical guidelines for scientific research in the humanities
(
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
)
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
Key publications
Scientific explanation
(2013
)
Erik Weber
Jeroen Van Bouwel
Leen De Vreese
Most recent publications
Weber, Erik, and Qianru Wang. “Analogical Reasoning and Evidence Transfer in Evidence-Based Policy.”
JOURNAL OF ARGUMENTATION IN CONTEXT
, vol. 14, no. 2, 2025, pp. 222–51, doi:10.1075/jaic.24016.web.
Weber, Erik. “Evidential Pluralism, Epistemic Causality and Mixed Methods Research.”
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
, vol. 4, no. 1, 2025, doi:10.1007/s44204-025-00263-1.
Gonzalez Barman, Kristian, et al. “Large Physics Models : Towards a Collaborative Approach with Large Language Models and Foundation Models.”
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
, vol. 85, no. 9, 2025, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14707-8.
Weber, Erik, et al. “Distinctively Generic Explanations of Physical Facts.”
SYNTHESE
, vol. 203, no. 4, 2024, doi:10.1007/s11229-024-04486-2.
Weber, Erik. “Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences as Evidence for Higher-Order Causal Relations.”
The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods
, edited by Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo, Routledge, 2024, pp. 454–66, doi:10.4324/9781003528937-52.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science II
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Science: Capita Selecta
Master’s Dissertation
Developing and Writing Research Proposals in Philosophy
Philosophy of Biomedical and Social Sciences
