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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
)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Van Bouwel, Jeroen, and Erik Weber. “Explanation.”
SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods
, edited by Paul Atkinson et al., Sage, 2020.
Weber, Erik, et al.
Black Ravens, White Shoes & Scientific Evidence. The Ravens Paradox and/in Scientific Practice
. 2020.
Weber, Erik, and Dunja Šešelja. “In Defence of Rationalist Accounts of the Continental Drift Debate : A Response to Pellegrini.”
JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
, vol. 51, no. 3, 2020, pp. 481–90, doi:10.1007/s10838-020-09516-4.
De Bal, Inge, and Erik Weber. “Causation, Time Asymmetry, and Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences.”
Time and Causality across the Sciences
, edited by Samantha Kleinberg, Cambridge Univerisity Press, 2019, pp. 138–57.
Weber, Erik, et al. “On the Structure and Epistemic Value of Function Ascriptions in Biology and Engineering Sciences.”
FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
, vol. 24, no. 3, 2019, pp. 559–81.
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
