Erik Weber (weber-e)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

De Vreese, Leen and Weber, Erik. 2004. “Applications of the Adaptive Logic for Causal Discovery.” Logique et Analyse 47(185–188): 33–51.
De Vreese, Leen and Weber, Erik. 2008. “Confusion and Bad Arguments in the Conceptual Analysis of Causation.” Logique et Analyse 51(201): 81–99.
Ducheyne, Steffen and Weber, Erik. 2007. “The Concept of Causation in Newton’s Mechanical and Optical Work.” Logic and Logical Philosophy 16(4): 265–288.
van Eck, Dingmar and Weber, Erik. 2014. “Function Ascription and Explanation: Elaborating an Explanatory Utility Desideratum for Ascriptions of Technical Functions.” Erkenntnis 79(6): 1367–1389.
Frans, Joachim and Weber, Erik. 2014. “Mechanistic Explanation and Explanatory Proofs in Mathematics.” Philosophia Mathematica 22(2): 231–248.
Gervais, Raoul and Weber, Erik. 2015. “The Role of Orientation Experiments in Discovering Mechanisms.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 54: 46–55.
Leuridan, Bert and Weber, Erik. 2011. “The IARC and Mechanistic Evidence.” in Causality in the Sciences, edited by Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo, and Jon Williamson, pp. 91–109. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Leuridan, Bert and Weber, Erik. 2013. “Causality and Explanation in the Sciences: the Rest of the Best.” Erkenntnis 78(suppl., 2): 147–151.
Leuridan, Bert, Weber, Erik and Van Dyck, Maarten. 2008. “The Practical Value of Spurious Correlations: Selective versus Manipulative Policy.” Analysis 68(4): 298–303.
Šešelja, Dunja and Weber, Erik. 2012. “Rationality and Irrationality in the History of Continental Drift: Was the Hypothesis of Continental Drift Worthy of Pursuit?” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43(1): 147–159.
Van Bouwel, Jeroen, Weber, Erik and De Vreese, Leen. 2011. “Indispensability Arguments in Favour of Reductive Explanations.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 42(1): 33–46.
Weber, Erik. 1987. “A Causal Approach to Explanations.” Logique et Analyse 30(117–118): 51–68.
Weber, Erik. 1990. “Phenomenological Laws and their Application to Scientific Epistemic Explanation Problems.” Logique et Analyse 33(129–130): 175–189.
Weber, Erik. 1994. “Default Reasoning in the Correction of Falsified System Descriptions.” Logique et Analyse 37(145): 13–22.
Weber, Erik. 1996. “Comment construit-on une explication déductive-nomologique?” Dialectica 50(3): 183–203.
Weber, Erik. 1997. “Scientific Explanation and the Interrogative Model of Inquiry.” in Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on Jaakko Hintikka’s Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, edited by Matti Sintonen, pp. 239–260. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 51. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Weber, Erik. 1998. “Prudential Arguments in the Realism Debate.” Logique et Analyse 41(164): 301–312.
Weber, Erik. 2003. “Explaining Laws by Reduction.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science XI: Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science – Selected Contributed Papers from the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999, edited by Artur Rojszczak, Jacek Cachro, and Gabriel Kurczewski, pp. 109–116. Synthese Library n. 320. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Weber, Erik. 2004. “Logical Analyses of (Scientific) Reasoning: An Introduction.” Logique et Analyse 47(185–188): 3–4.
Weber, Erik. 2010. “Causal Methodology. A Comment on Cartwright (2007).” Analysis 70(2): 318–325.
Weber, Erik and De Bal, Inge. 2019. “Causation & Technical Problem Solving.” Logique et Analyse 62(247): 285–318.
Weber, Erik and De Clercq, Kristof. 2002. “Why the Logic of Explanation is Inconsistency-Adaptive.” in Inconsistency in Science, edited by Joke Meheus, pp. 165–184. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0085-6.
Weber, Erik and De Preester, Helena. 2005. “Micro-Explanations of Laws.” in Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry, edited by Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, and Jeanne Peijnenburg, pp. 177–186. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 84. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Weber, Erik and De Vreese, Leen. 2005. “The Causes and Cures of Scurvy. How Modern was James Lind’s Methodology?” Logic and Logical Philosophy 14(1): 55–67.
Weber, Erik and De Vreese, Leen. 2009. “Conceptual Analysis of Causation and Theoretical Utility in Everyday Contexts.” Logique et Analyse 52(206): 177–190.
Weber, Erik, Gervais, Raoul and Van Bouwel, Jeroen. 2015. “The ‘Green Cheese’ and ‘Red Herring’ Problems Reconsidered.” Logique et Analyse 58(231): 433–455.
Weber, Erik and Lefevere, Merel. 2017. “Unification, the Answer to Resemblance Questions.” Synthese 194(9): 3501–3521.
Weber, Erik and Provijn, Dagmar. 1999. “A Formal Analysis of Diagnosis and Diagnostic Reasoning.” Logique et Analyse 42(165–166): 161–180.
Weber, Erik and Van Bouwel, Jeroen. 2002. “Can we Dispense with Structural Explanations of Social Facts?” Economics and Philosophy 18(2): 259–275.
Weber, Erik and Van Bouwel, Jeroen. 2005. “Coping with Inconsistencies: Examples from the Social Sciences.” Logic and Logical Philosophy 14(1): 89–101.
Weber, Erik and Van Bouwel, Jeroen. 2007. “Assessing the Explanatory Power of Causal Explanations.” in Proklos. Methode, Seelenlehre, Metaphysik. Akten der Konferenz in Jena am 18.-20. September 2003, edited by Matthias Perkams and Roas Maria Piccione, pp. 109–118. Philosophia Antiqua n. 98. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Weber, Erik, Van Bouwel, Jeroen and Lefevere, Merel. 2011. “The Role of Unification in Explanation of Facts.” in EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, edited by Henk W. de Regt, Stephan Hartmann, and Samir Okasha, pp. 403–414. The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings n. 1. Dordrecht: Springer.
Weber, Erik and Van Dyck, Maarten. 2001. “Adaptive Logic and Covering Law Explanations.” Logique et Analyse 44(173–175): 237–254.
Weber, Erik and Verhoeven, Liza. 2002. “Explanatory Proofs in Mathematics.” Logique et Analyse 45(179–180): 299–307.
Weber, Erik, Wieland, Jan Willem and De Mey, Tim. 2010. “Introduction.” Logique et Analyse 53(211): 247–249.
Weber, Erik, Wouters, Dietlinde and Meheus, Joke. 2012. “Introduction.” Logique et Analyse 55(220): 509–511.
Wieland, Jan Willem and Weber, Erik. 2010. “Metaphysical Explanatory Asymmetries.” Logique et Analyse 53(211): 345–365.

Further References

Cartwright, Nancy. 2007. Hunting Causes and Using Them. Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.