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Researcher

Erik Weber

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Awards & Distinctions

205 Results

2025

Analogical reasoning and evidence transfer in evidence-based policy

Erik WeberQianru Wang

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ARGUMENTATION IN CONTEXT

Epiloog : wetenschappelijke doelen en de rol van wetenschappelijke vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

Evidential pluralism, epistemic causality and mixed methods research

A2 Journal Article in ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Large physics models : towards a collaborative approach with large language models and foundation models

Kristian Gonzalez BarmanSascha CaronEmily SullivanHenk W. de RegtRoberto Ruiz de AustriMieke BoonMichael FärberStefan FröseTobias GollingLuis G. Lopez et al.

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C

Wetenschap voor de toekomst

Editorial material

2024

Causal mechanisms in the social sciences as evidence for higher-order causal relations

Bookchapter in The Routledge handbook of causality and causal methods

Distinctively generic explanations of physical facts

Erik WeberKristian Gonzalez BarmanThijs De Coninck

A1 Journal Article in SYNTHESE

Interdisciplinary research and integration in social robotics

Erik WeberJulie Mennes

A2 Journal Article in ISSUES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Rethinking evidence-based management

Erik WeberAnn WyverkensBert Leuridan

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT

2023

Experimental philosophy of medical explanation : why and how should we do it?

Erik WeberBert Leuridan

Bookchapter in Advances in experimental philosophy of medicine

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

Kristian Campbell Gonzalez BarmanErik WeberDingmar van Eck

The structure of analogical reasoning in bioethics

Erik WeberQianru Wang

A1 Journal Article in MEDICINE HEALTH CARE AND PHILOSOPHY

2022

On laws of politics and how to establish them

A1 Journal Article in PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS

Six theses on mechanisms and mechanistic science

Stuart GlennanPhyllis IllariErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Thinking about laws in political science (and beyond)

Erik WeberKarina MakhnevBert LeuridanKristian Gonzalez BarmanThijs De Coninck

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

2021

Alfred Wegeners theorie van continentendrift en haar rivalen : rationele onenigheid en rationele consensus in de aardwetenschappen

A2 Journal Article in ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE

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

Dingmar van EckErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in ENGINEERING STUDIES

Characteristics of integration in inter- and transdisciplinary urban research and practice

Erik WeberJulie Mennes

Bookchapter in Enabling the city : interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary encounters in research and practice

Investigating the unity and disunity of scientific explanation

Erik WeberHenk de RegtDingmar van Eck

Editorial material

Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms

Erik WeberMerel LefevereKristian Gonzalez Barman

A1 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF CHEMISTRY

Erik WeberInge De Bal

Editorial material

The structure of causal explanations in population biology

Erik WeberRoxan Degeyter

A1 Journal Article in ACTA BIOTHEORETICA

2020

Black ravens, white shoes and scientific evidence : the Ravens Paradox and/in scientific practice

Erik WeberMathieu BeirlaenInge De Bal

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

Bookchapter in Sage research methods

In defence of rationalist accounts of the continental drift debate : a response to Pellegrini

Erik WeberDunja Šešelja

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Truth commissions : social-epistemological investigations

Dietlinde WoutersErik WeberMaarten Van Dyck

2019

Causation & technical problem solving : an analysis of causal knowledge underlying proposed solutions for technical problems

Erik WeberInge De Bal

A1 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Causation, time asymmetry, and causal mechanisms in the social sciences

Inge De BalErik Weber

Bookchapter in Time and causality across the sciences

Facilitating cross-disciplinarity : joining forces of philosophy of science and computational linguistics

Julie MennesErik WeberEls Lefever

Generic causation

Erik WeberLeen De Vreese

Bookchapter in SAGE research methods foundations

Inleiding : filosofie, wetenschap en maatschappij

Erik WeberInge De Bal

Editorial material

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

Scientific Reasoning in Action-From the Early Modern Period to 1900, 10-12 October

Erik WeberJonathan RegierSteffen Ducheyne

Wat is een goed biomedisch experiment : James Lind revisited

Erik WeberLeen De Vreese

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

2018

Causation, lawhood and determinism in electoral systems research : why ‘Duverger’s law’ deserves to be called a law

Erik WeberInge De Bal

A2 Journal Article in FRENCH POLITICS

Discipline-overschrijdend onderzoek in Vlaanderen : wetenschapsfilosofische reflecties over beleidsvisies en financieringskanalen

Erik WeberJulie Mennes

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

Explanation and understanding, Ghent, 23-25 May 2018

Dingmar van EckErik WeberHenk de Regt

Laudation Friedrich Stadler

Logic in the Wild, 9-10 November

Rafal UrbaniakErik WeberMariusz Urbanski

Rethinking unification : unification as an explanatory value in scientific practice

Merel LefevereErik WeberLeen De Vreese

The 7th biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, 30 June-02 July

Dingmar van EckErik Weber

2017

Ampliative reasoning in the sciences : 5th Workshop on Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality, May 18-19

Dunja SeseljaMathieu BeirlaenErik Weber

Comparative causation at multiple levels and across scientific disciplines

Erik WeberLeen De Vreese

A1 Journal Article in AXIOMATHES

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

Is mathematics a domain for philosophers of explanation?

Erik WeberJoachim Frans

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Physical Causal Knowledge : a user's manual : revisiting the debate about causation in physics from a use-perspective

Inge De BalErik WeberPhyllis IllariBert Leuridan

Unification, the answer to resemblance questions

Erik WeberMerel Lefevere

A1 Journal Article in SYNTHESE

2016

Filosofie aan de Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap van de Universiteit Gent

Tom ClaesErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE

Hoe moeten we wetenschappelijke verklaring bestuderen?

Erik WeberLeen De VreeseJeroen Van Bouwel

A1 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE

How to study scientific explanation?

Erik WeberLeen De VreeseJeroen Van Bouwel

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Onderzoeksethiek : van ethische codes en commissies naar ethische vorming voor wetenschappers

Erik WeberDietlinde WoutersTom Claes

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

Wetenschap: wat, hoe en waarom?

Erik WeberBert LeuridanMerel Lefevere

2015

Contrastive causation in genetics and in physics

Erik WeberInge De Bal

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA

Evaluating the aims and methods of defining art : a metaphilosophical investigation regarding the question 'what is art?'

Annelies MonseréErik Weber

Interests and epistemic integrity in science : a new framework to assess interest influences in scientific research processes

Jan De WinterErik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

The 'green cheese' and 'red herring' problems reconsidered: epistemological versus methodological tasks for philosophers of science

Erik WeberRaoul GervaisJeroen Van Bouwel

A1 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Waarom wetenschappelijk onderzoek financieren : een essay over de waarde van wetenschap, met gevalstudies in sociologie en criminologie

Erik WeberBen Heylen

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

2014

Adaptive logics as a necessary tool for relative rationality : including a section on logical pluralism

Bookchapter in Logic, reasoning, and rationality

Bloody analogical reasoning

Bookchapter in Logic, reasoning, and rationality

Data-driven induction in scientific discovery : a critical assessment based on Kepler's discoveries

Albrecht Heeffer

Bookchapter in Logic, reasoning, and rationality

Explaining capacities : assessing the explanatory power of models in the cognitive sciences

Bookchapter in Logic, reasoning, and rationality

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

Dingmar van EckErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in ERKENNTNIS

Internalism does entail scepticism

Jan Willem Wieland

Bookchapter in Logic, reasoning, and rationality

Logic, reasoning, and rationality

Mechanistic explanation and explanatory proofs in mathematics(aEuro)

Joachim FransErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHIA MATHEMATICA

Erik WeberJoke MeheusDietlinde Wouters

Editorial material

The role of unification in micro-explanations of physical laws

Erik WeberMerel Lefevere

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

2013

And so on: two theories of regress arguments in philosophy

Jan Willem WielandErik WeberMaarten Van Dyck

Causaliteit en de methodestrijd: naar een geïntegreerd gebruik van kwalitatief en kwantitatief onderzoek in een praktisch georiënteerde criminologie

Ben HeylenErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in PANOPTICON

Causality and explanation in the sciences: the rest of the best

Bert LeuridanErik Weber

Editorial material

Explanation in the cognitive sciences and biology: mechanisms, laws, and their explanatory virtues

Raoul GervaisErik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

Inferential explanations in biology

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Erik WeberDietlinde WoutersJoke Meheus

Editorial material

Plausibility versus richness in mechanistic models

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Puzzles in socially responsible investment: issues of business ethics in the financial industry

Dirk Josephus LeysErik Weber

Scientific explanation

Erik WeberJeroen Van BouwelLeen De Vreese

The ICE-theory of technical functions

Erik WeberThomas ReydonMieke BoonWybo HoukesPieter vermaas

A2 Journal Article in METASCIENCE

2012

Can economics become a purely experimental science? A comparative study

Causality and explanation in the sciences

Bert LeuridanErik Weber

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

Causation in perspective: are all causal claims equally warranted?

Erik WeberLeen De Vreese

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

Het debat tussen 'groene spellers' en 'witte spellers' geëvalueerd vanuit een sociaal-epistemologische invalshoek

Liesbeth MartensErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

Het doel van wetenschap: is er een derde weg tussen onbeperkt intentioneel realisme en strikt pragmatisme?

Bookchapter in Door denken en doen : essays bij het werk van Ronald Commers

Erik WeberDietlinde WoutersJoke Meheus

Editorial material

Erik WeberDietlinde WoutersJoke Meheus

Editorial material

Erik WeberDietlinde WoutersJoke Meheus

Editorial material

Rationality and irrationality in the history of continental drift: was the hypothesis of continental drift worthy of pursuit?

Dunja SeseljaErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Rationally evaluating inconsistent theories

Erik WeberMaarten Van Dyck

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

The role of unification in explanations of facts

Erik WeberJeroen Van BouwelMerel Lefevere

Two gaps in the contextual theory of scientific understanding

Two problems for the contextual theory of scientific understanding

2011

Epistemic evaluation in the context of pursuit and in the argumentative approach to methodology

Dunja SeseljaErik WeberJoke Meheus

Explanation in the social sciences

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

Bookchapter in The sage handbook of the philosophy of social sciences

Indispensability arguments in favour of reductive explanations

Jeroen Van BouwelErik WeberLeen De Vreese

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Needham’s grand question revisited: on the meaning and justification of causal claims in the history of Chinese science

David De SaegerErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in EAST ASIAN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE

The covering law model applied to dynamical cognitive science: a comment on Joel Walmsley

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in MINDS AND MACHINES

The IARC and mechanistic evidence

Bert LeuridanErik Weber

Bookchapter in Causality in the sciences

2010

Causal methodology: a comment on Nancy Cartwright's hunting causes and using them

Editorial material

Explanatory pluralism in the medical sciences: theory and practice

Leen De VreeseErik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

A1 Journal Article in THEORETICAL MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS

How to Identify Scientifc Revolutions?

Erik WeberDunja Seselja

Bookchapter in On Kuhn's Philosophy and its Legacy

Metaphysical explanatory asymmetries

Jan Willem WielandErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Models in science: essays on scientific virtues, scientific pluralism and the distribution of labour in science

Rogier De LangheErik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

2009

'Clear Moon, frost soon' : an introduction to the study of meteorological practices in the Low Countries (1550-1850)

A note on constructive modalities for information

Giuseppe Primiero

Causation, unification and the adequacy of explanations of facts

Erik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

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

Conceptual analysis of causation and theoretical utility in everyday contexts

Erik WeberLeen De Vreese

A1 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

How Probabilistic Causation Can Account for the Use of Mechanistic Evidence

A2 Journal Article in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Laudation Jens Høyrup

Erik WeberAlbrecht Heeffer

Logic, philosophy and history of science in Belgium : proceedings of the Young Researchers Days 2008

Mathematics through man-computer interaction : a study of the early years of computing

Liesbeth De Mol

Modal logic and philosophy : a case study

Agnieszka RostalskaRafal Urbaniak

Probabilistic analyses and the Humean conception of the relationship between levels of causality

Isabelle Drouet

Reasoning with dynamic frames

The Adaptive Logics Approach to Abduction

Trading off explanatory virtues

Rogier De Langhe

Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy

Bookchapter in The Social Sciences and Democracy. How Philosophy of Science Informs us about their Relation

2008

A pragmatist defense of non-relativistic explanatory pluralism in history and social science.

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in HISTORY AND THEORY

Confusion and bad arguments in the conceptual analysis of causation

Leen De VreeseErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Counterfactuals and causal inference: methods and principles for social research

Erik WeberBert Leuridan

De-ontologizing the debate on social explanations: a pragmatic approach based on epistemic interests.

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in HUMAN STUDIES

Laws of nature and causality in the special sciences: a philosophical and formal analysis

Bert LeuridanJoke MeheusErik Weber

Protagoras en het kennistheoretisch relativisme

Bookchapter in Us and Them. Essays over filosofie, politiek, religie en cultuur van de Antieke Oudheid tot Islam in Europa ter ere van Herman De Ley

Regiomontanus and Chinese mathematics

Albrecht Heeffer

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

Reply to Daniel Steel's "With or Without Mechanisms"

Editorial material

The debate between causal realism and causal constructivism: metaphilosophical reflections

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

The practical value of spurious correlations: selective versus manipulative policy

Bert LeuridanErik WeberMaarten Van Dyck

A1 Journal Article in ANALYSIS

2007

A pragmatist approach to the plurality of explanations in international relations theory

Rogier De LangheErik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

Assessing the explanatory power of causal explanations.

Erik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

Bookchapter in Rethinking explanation.

Conceptual tools for causal analysis in the social sciences.

Bookchapter in Causality and probability in the sciences

Social mechanisms, causal inference, and the policy relevance of social science

A1 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

The concept of causation in Newton's mechanical and optical work

Steffen DucheyneErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in LOGIC AND LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY

Tracing unsolvability : a mathematical, historical and philosophical analysis with a special focus on tag systems

Liesbeth De MolErik Weber

Wetenschapsfilosofie.

L HORSTENI DOUVENErik Weber

2006

An archaeology of Galileo's science of motion

Maarten Van DyckErik Weber

Are there ontological explanations

Bookchapter in Essays in logic and ontology

Pluralisme versus monisme in het filosofische debat over causaliteit: naar een zinvolle pluralistische benadering van causaliteit als theoretisch kader voor de explicatie van causaal redeneren

Leen De VreeseErik Weber

Virtuosi at work: historical-philosophical essays on causality and methodology in the natural philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and Newton

Steffen DucheyneErik Weber

2005

Coping with inconsistencies: examples from the social sciences

Erik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

A2 Journal Article in LOGIC AND LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY

Forms of causal explanation

Erik WeberJeroen Van BouwelRobrecht Vanderbeeken

A2 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

INUS Conditions.

L HORSTENErik Weber

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of statistics in behavioral science

Kennis ontrafeld: vijftien hedendaagse filosofen over wetenschap, ethiek en metafysica.

Micro-explanations of laws.

Erik WeberHelena De Preester

Bookchapter in Cognitive structures in scientific inquiry

The Causes and Cures of Scurvy. How modern was James Lind's methodology?

Leen De VreeseErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in LOGIC AND LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Functions of Intentional Explanations of Actions

Erik WeberRobrecht Vanderbeeken

A2 Journal Article in BEHAVIOR AND PHILOSOPHY

Wie rookt gaat sneller dood en betaalt dus meer : over het belang van oorzaak-gevolg-relaties in verzekeren en de moeilijkheid bij het onderzoeken ervan

A2 Journal Article in ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ

2004

Applications of the Adaptive Logic for Causal Discovery

Leen De VreeseErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Cassirer's critical idealism: a comment on Thomas Mormann.

Maarten Van DyckErik Weber

Bookchapter in Laws and Models in Science

Modal epistemology.

2003

Een pluralisme van verklaringen van acties

Robrecht VanderbeekenErik Weber

Explaining laws by reduction

Explanation and thought experiments in history.

Tim De MeyErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in HISTORY AND THEORY

Searching for singular causal explanations : a formal analysis

Leen De VreeseErik Weber

Thinking through thought experiments

Tim De MeyErik Weber

Verklaringspluralisme in de sociale wetenschappen

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

2002

Adaptive logics for non-explanatory and explanatory diagnostic reasoning

Dagmar ProvijnErik Weber

Discussion - The living apart together relationship of causation and explanation a comment on Jean Lachapelle.

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

Editorial material

Dispositional Explanations of Behavior.

Robrecht VanderbeekenErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in BEHAVIOR AND PHILOSOPHY

Explanatory Proofs in Mathematics

Erik WeberLiza Verhoeven

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Remote Causes, Bad Explanations?

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

Remote causes, bad explanations?

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

Symposium on Explanation and Social Ontology 3: Can We Dispense with Structural Explanations of Social Facts?

Erik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

A1 Journal Article in ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Unification and explanation - A comment on Halonen and Hintikka, and Schurz.

Erik WeberMaarten Van Dyck

A1 Journal Article in SYNTHESE

Why the logic of explanation is inconsistency-adaptive.

Erik WeberKristof De Clercq

Bookchapter in Inconsistency in science

2001

A pragmatic approach to the explanation of actions.

Erik WeberRobrecht Vanderbeeken

Bookchapter in Social science methodology in the new millenium

A Pragmatic Approach to the Explanation of Actions. Social Science Methodology in the New Millenium

Erik WeberRobrecht Vanderbeeken

Adaptive Logic and Covering Law Explanation

Erik WeberMaarten Van Dyck

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

2000

Can we dispense with the structural explanation of social facts?

Jeroen Van BouwelErik Weber

1999

A Formal Analysis of Diagnosis and Diagnostic Reasoning.

Erik WeberDagmar Provijn

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

A2 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

Editorial material

Rationality in the Discovery of Empirical Laws

A2 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

Scientific revolutions, rationality and creativity

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

Unification: what is it, how do we reach and why do we want it?

A1 Journal Article in SYNTHESE

World Models and Inconsistencies.

Erik WeberW CHRISTIAENS

A2 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

1998

Editoral Preface.

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Jean-Paul van Bendengem, Tot in der Eindigheid. Over wetenschap, New Age en religie

Prudential Arguments in the Realism Debate.

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

The practical functions and epistemology of causal beliefs

A4 Journal Article in COMMUNICATION & COGNITION : MONOGRAPHIES

1997

Scientific explanation and the interrogative model of inquiry

Bookchapter in Knowledge and iquiry : essays on Jaakko Hintikka's epistemology and philosophy of science

1996

Default Reasoning in the Correction of Falsified System Descriptions

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Explaining, understanding and scientific theories

A2 Journal Article in ERKENNTNIS (DORDRECHT)

How to construct a deductive-nomological explanation?

A1 Journal Article in DIALECTICA

1995

Faut-il chercher aux causes une raison ? L'explication causale dans les sciences humaines (Lyon, Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes Epistémologiques, 1994).

Realism and scientific explanations

Bookchapter in The many problems of realism

Review of Werner Callebaut, 'taking the naturalistic turn' (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1993)

Scientific Arguments and Scientific Prediction

Some problems for Kitcher's unification account of explanation

A4 Journal Article in COMMUNICATION & COGNITION : MONOGRAPHIES

1994

Socialisatie, sociale controle en sociologische verklaringen van menselijke handelingen

A2 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR SOCIALE WETENSCHAPPEN

Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or, How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done: Conversations with William Bechtel ... [et al] Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Werner Callebaut

Waarom Wesley Salmons causaal-mechanische model van verklaring niet volstaat

1993

Aspecten van ontdekking en creativiteit

Diderik BatensJoke MeheusErik Weber

Explanation : understanding and why-questions

Het construeren van wetenschappelijke verklaringen

Editorial material

The indirect practical functions of explanations

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

Wetenschappelijke verklaringen en subjectief verwacht nut

1992

De functies van wetenschappelijk epistemisch verklaren : een bijdrage tot de analyse van de toepassingsvormen en -contexten van wetenschappelijke kennis

Erik WeberD. Batens

De verklarende kracht van statistische hypothesen

Models of explanation: an evaluation of their fruitfulness

A4 Journal Article in COMMUNICATION & COGNITION : MONOGRAPHIES

Scientific Explanation' (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989)

1990

Phenomenological Laws and their Application to Scientific Epistemic Explanation Problems

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

1989

De asymmetrie van wetenschappelijke verklaringen

A2 Journal Article in ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE

Scientific explanation, necessity and contingency

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

1987

A causal approach to explanations

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

The transformation of cognitive values into methodological rules

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)