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Researcher

Dingmar van Eck

Awards & Distinctions

39 Results

2023

Explanation in the engineering sciences : IBE, causal modelling, and (fictional) mechanisms in failure analysis and safety science

Kristian Gonzalez BarmanErik WeberDingmar van Eck

2021

Assessing function modeling frameworks : technical advantage predictions as a conceptual tool

Dingmar van EckErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in ENGINEERING STUDIES

Investigating the unity and disunity of scientific explanation

Erik WeberHenk de RegtDingmar van Eck

Editorial material

Mechanist idealisation in systems biology

Dingmar van EckCory Wright

A1 Journal Article in SYNTHESE

2020

IBE in engineering science : the case of malfunction explanation

Kristian Gonzalez BarmanDingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

2019

Constitutive relevance in cognitive science : the case of eye movements and cognitive mechanisms

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

On the structure and epistemic value of function ascriptions in biology and engineering sciences

Erik WeberDingmar van EckJulie Mennes

A1 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

2018

A comprehensive guide to the new mechanistic philosophy : review of: Stuart Glennan (2017). The New Mechanical Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Dingmar van Eck

Explanation and understanding, Ghent, 23-25 May 2018

Dingmar van EckErik WeberHenk de Regt

Mechanism discovery and design explanation : where role function meets biological advantage function

Dingmar van EckJulie Mennes

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

On testing engineering design methods : explanation, reverse engineering, and constitutive relevance

Dingmar van Eck

Bookchapter in Advancements in the philosophy of design

Ontic explanation is either ontic or explanatory, buth not both

Cory WrightDingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in ERGO - AN OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Rethinking the explanatory power of dynamical models in cognitive science

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2017

In defense of coexisting engineering meanings of function

Dingmar van EckErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in AI EDAM-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS AND MANUFACTURING

Mechanisms and engineering science

Dingmar van Eck

Bookchapter in Routledge handbook of mechanisms and mechanical philosophy

2016

Design explanation and idealization

Dingmar van EckJulie Mennes

A1 Journal Article in ERKENNTNIS

Difference making, explanatory relevance, and mechanistic models

Dingmar van EckRaoul Gervais

A1 Journal Article in THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA

Mechanistic explanation, cognitive system demarcation, and extended cognition

Dingmar van EckHuib Looren de Jong

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The philosophy of science and engineering design

Dingmar van Eck

2015

Dissolving the 'problem of the absent artifact': design representations as means for counterfactual understanding and knowledge generalisation

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in DESIGN STUDIES

Mechanistic explanation in engineering science

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Reconciling ontic and epistemic constraints on mechanistic explanation, epistemically

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in AXIOMATHES

Validating function-based design methods: an explanationist perspective

Dingmar van Eck

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY

2014

Function ascription and explanation: elaborating an explanatory utility desideratum for ascriptions of technical functions

Dingmar van EckErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in ERKENNTNIS

Rethinking the explanatory power of extended cognition

Dingmar van Eck

Review van Gijsbert Kuijpers (2014), Wetenschap en doelbegrip: nieuw onderscheid als bron van inspiratie

Dingmar van Eck

2013

The conceptual elusiveness of engineering functions: a philosophical analysis

PE VermaasDingmar van EckPA Kroes

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY

2011

Functional decomposition: on rationality and incommensurability in engineering

Dingmar van EckPeter A KroesPieter E Vermaas

Incommensurability and rationality in engineering design: the case of functional decomposition

Dingmar van Eck

A2 Journal Article in SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL

Supporting design knowledge exchange by converting models of functional decomposition

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING DESIGN

2010

Explaining and relating different engineering models of functional decomposition

Dingmar van Eck

On the conversion of functional models: bridging differences between functional taxonomies in the modeling of user actions

Dingmar van Eck

A1 Journal Article in RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

Supporting functional knowledge exchange between functional taxonomies by establishing function-behaviour links

Dingmar van Eck

2009

On relating functional modeling approaches: abstracting functional models from behavioral models

Dingmar van Eck

Translation failures, truth-value status gaps and methodological incommensurability

Dingmar van Eck

2008

Functional decomposition in engineering: a survey

Dingmar van EckDaniel McAdamsPieter Vermaas

2006

Evaluating new wave reductionism: the case of vision

Dingmar van EckH Looren de JongMKD Schouten

A1 Journal Article in BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

2005

Psychomythics: sources of artifacts and misconceptions in scientific psychology

Dingmar van Eck

2003

Intertheoretic relations: the case of vision research

Dingmar van EckHuib Looren de JongMaurice Schouten