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    The Conceptual Elusiveness of Engineering Functions.Pieter E. Vermaas, Dingmar van Eck & Peter Kroes - 2013 - Philosophy and Technology 26 (2):159-185.
    In this paper, we describe the conceptual elusiveness of the notion of function as used in engineering practice. We argue that it should be accepted as an ambiguous notion, and then review philosophical argumentations in which engineering functions occur in order to identify the consequences of this ambiguity. Function is a key notion in engineering, yet is used by engineers systematically in a variety of meanings. First, we demonstrate that this ambiguous use is rational for engineers by considering the role (...)
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    A narratological analysis of Mark 12:1-12: The plot of the Gospel of Mark in a nutshell.E. Van Eck & A. G. Van Aarde - 1989 - HTS Theological Studies 45 (4).
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    Die ideologiese funksie van ruimte in die Markus-vertelling: ’n Verkenning.E. Van Eck - 1991 - HTS Theological Studies 47 (4).
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    Galilea en Jerusalem as narratologiese ruimtes in die Markusevangelie: 'n Kontinuering van die Lohmeyer- Lightfoot-Marxsen ketting.E. Van Eck - 1988 - HTS Theological Studies 44 (1).
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    A G van Aarde as teoloog.E. Van Eck - 1992 - HTS Theological Studies 48 (1/2).
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    Die funksie van ruimte in die narratologie.E. Van Eck - 1986 - HTS Theological Studies 42 (2).
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    Voorwoord deur die voorsitter van die Hervormde Dosentevergadering.E. Van Eck - 2010 - HTS Theological Studies 66 (3).
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    ’n Sosiaal-wetenskaplike ondersoek na die ‘amp’ van die ouderling in die Nuwe Testament.E. Van Eck - 1991 - HTS Theological Studies 47 (3).
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    The Gospel of Mark, with introduction, notes, and original text featuring the new Scholars Version translation: The Scholars Bible.E. Van Eck - 1996 - HTS Theological Studies 52 (2/3).
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  10. (1 other version)Not-Being and Difference: On Plato's Sophist 256 d 5–258 e 3.J. Van Eck - 2002 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 23:63-84.
     
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    From dignity to security protocols: a scientometric analysis of digital ethics.René Mahieu, Nees Jan van Eck, David van Putten & Jeroen van den Hoven - 2018 - Ethics and Information Technology 20 (3):175-187.
    Our lives are increasingly intertwined with the digital realm, and with new technology, new ethical problems emerge. The academic field that addresses these problems—which we tentatively call ‘digital ethics’—can be an important intellectual resource for policy making and regulation. This is why it is important to understand how the new ethical challenges of a digital society are being met by academic research. We have undertaken a scientometric analysis to arrive at a better understanding of the nature, scope and dynamics of (...)
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    The New Perspective challenge to Luther.Bart Eriksson & Ernest van Eck - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (4):9.
    New Perspective scholars challenge Protestant interpretations of Paul. It used to be the case, they state, that Protestants assumed that Paul was to Judaism as Luther was to Medieval Catholicism. Both men supposedly reacted against legalistic religions and championed grace-based faiths. However, in 1977, E.P. Sanders wrote Paul and Palestinian Judaism, arguing that Judaism is not a legalistic but a grace-based faith. Assuming that Sanders is correct, New Perspectivists claim that Paul’s and Luther’s theologies and experiences were thus not parallel. (...)
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  13. Mechanist idealisation in systems biology.Dingmar van Eck & Cory Wright - 2020 - Synthese 199 (1-2):1555-1575.
    This paper adds to the philosophical literature on mechanistic explanation by elaborating two related explanatory functions of idealisation in mechanistic models. The first function involves explaining the presence of structural/organizational features of mechanisms by reference to their role as difference-makers for performance requirements. The second involves tracking counterfactual dependency relations between features of mechanisms and features of mechanistic explanandum phenomena. To make these functions salient, we relate our discussion to an exemplar from systems biological research on the mechanism for countering (...)
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  14. A system of temporally relative modal and deontic predicate logic and its philosophical applications.J. Van Eck - 1982 - Logique Et Analyse 25:339.
     
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    The Philosophy of Science and Engineering Design.Dingmar van Eck - 2016 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book discusses the relationship between the philosophy of science and philosophy of engineering, and demonstrates how philosophers of engineering design as well as design researchers can benefit from the conceptual toolkit that the philosophy of science has to offer. In this regard, it employs conceptual tools from the philosophical literature on scientific explanation to address key issues in engineering design and philosophy of engineering design. Specifically, the book focuses on assessing the explanatory value of function ascriptions used in engineering (...)
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    Function Ascription and Explanation: Elaborating an Explanatory Utility Desideratum for Ascriptions of Technical Functions.Dingmar van Eck & Erik Weber - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (6):1367-1389.
    Current philosophical theorizing about technical functions is mainly focused on specifying conditions under which agents are justified in ascribing functions to technical artifacts. Yet, assessing the precise explanatory relevance of such function ascriptions is, by and large, a neglected topic in the philosophy of technical artifacts and technical functions. We assess the explanatory utility of ascriptions of technical functions in the following three explanation-seeking contexts: why was artifact x produced?, why does artifact x not have the expected capacity to ϕ?, (...)
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  17. Reconciling Ontic and Epistemic Constraints on Mechanistic Explanation, Epistemically.Dingmar van Eck - 2015 - Axiomathes 25 (1):5-22.
    In this paper I address the current debate on ontic versus epistemic conceptualizations of mechanistic explanation in the mechanisms literature. Illari recently argued that good explanations are subject to both ontic and epistemic constraints: they must describe mechanisms in the world in such fashion that they provide understanding of their workings. Elaborating upon Illari’s ‘integration’ account, I argue that causal role function discovery of mechanisms and their components is an epistemic prerequisite for achieving these two aims. This analysis extends Illari’s (...)
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  18. Recht en ethiek.D. van Eck - 1971 - Deventer,: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
     
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    Functional Decomposition: On Rationality and Incommensurability in Engineering.D. Van Eck - unknown
    The concept of technical function is a key concept to describe technical artifacts and artifacts-to-be-designed. Engineers often give such descriptions in terms of functional decomposition models, which represent relationships between functions and sets of other functions. Despite the importance of the concept of function there is no consensus among engineers about its meaning. Models of functional decomposition are likewise conceptually divergent. Although this conceptual diversity hampers information exchange between engineers, they accept and maintain it. Engineers do not, by and large, (...)
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    Rethinking the explanatory power of dynamical models in cognitive science.Dingmar van Eck - 2018 - Philosophical Psychology 31 (8):1131-1161.
    ABSTRACTIn this paper I offer an interventionist perspective on the explanatory structure and explanatory power of dynamical models in cognitive science: I argue that some “pure” dynamical models – ones that do not refer to mechanisms at all – in cognitive science are “contextualized causal models” and that this explanatory structure gives such models genuine explanatory power. I contrast this view with several other perspectives on the explanatory power of “pure” dynamical models. One of the main results is that dynamical (...)
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    Mission, identity and ethics in Mark: Jesus, the patron for outsiders.Ernest Van Eck - 2013 - HTS Theological Studies 69 (1).
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    British Architectural Theory, 1540-1750: An Anthology of Texts.Caroline Alexandra van Eck, Caroline van Eck & Christy Anderson - 2003 - Ashgate Publishing.
    The nature of architecture Building Architecture and Religion The sense of the past Following the example of antiquity.
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  23. Platonic analysis of the false. The summit of logical analysis stories.Job van Eck - 2007 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 62 (4):635-646.
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    Evaluating New Wave Reductionism: The Case of Vision.D. van Eck - 2006 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (1):167-196.
    This paper inquires into the nature of intertheoretic relations between psychology and neuroscience. This relationship has been characterized by some as one in which psychological explanations eventually will fall away as otiose, overthrown completely by neurobiological ones. Against this view it will be argued that it squares poorly with scientific practices and empirical developments in the cognitive neurosciences. We analyse a case from research on visual perception, which suggests a much more subtle and complex interplay between psychology and neuroscience than (...)
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    Self-predication and Being the Aitia of Things.Job van Eck - 2008 - Ancient Philosophy 28 (1):105-124.
  26. Skopei* ne* n lo* goi~: On Phaedo 99d-103c.Job van Eck - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (1):21.
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    (1 other version)Plato’s Logical Insights.Job van Eck - 2000 - Ancient Philosophy 20 (1):53-79.
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    The Word is life: African theology as biblical and contextual theology.Ernest Van Eck - 2006 - HTS Theological Studies 62 (2).
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  29. (1 other version)Fine's Plato: A Discussion of Gail Fine, Plato on Knowledge and Forms.Job Van Eck - 2005 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 28:303-326.
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    (2 other versions)A prophet of old: Jesus the ‘public theologian’.Ernest Van Eck - 2010 - HTS Theological Studies 66 (1).
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    Design Explanation and Idealization.Dingmar van Eck & Julie Mennes - 2016 - Erkenntnis 81 (5):1051-1071.
    In this paper we assess the explanatory role of idealizations in ‘design explanations’, a type of functional explanation used in biology. In design explanations, idealizations highlight which factors make a difference to phenomena to be explained: hypothetical, idealized, organisms are invoked to make salient which traits of extant organisms make a difference to organismal fitness. This result negates the view that idealizations serve only pragmatic benefits, and complements the view that idealizations highlight factors that do not make a difference. This (...)
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    An unexpected patron: A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Vineyard Labourers (Mt 20:1–15).Ernest Van Eck & John S. Kloppenborg - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (1).
    Many readings of the Parable of the Labourers in the vineyard want to treat the owner as representing God. Knowledge of actual agricultural practices relating to the management of vineyards suggest, on the contrary, that the details of the parable obstruct an easy identification of the owner with God, and that he displays unusual behaviour not only by paying all the labourers the same wage, but by his very intervention in the hiring process. The conclusion reached is that the parable (...)
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    Incommensurability and Rationality in Engineering Design.Dingmar van Eck - 2011 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 15 (2):118-136.
    In engineering design research different models of functional decomposition are advanced side-by-side. In this paper I explain and validate this co-existence of models in terms of the Kuhnian thesis of methodological incommensurability. I advance this analysis in terms of the thesis’ construal of (non-algorithmic) theory choice in terms of values, expanding this notion to the engineering domain. I further argue that the (by some) implicated threat of the thesis to rational theory choice has no force in the functional decomposition case: (...)
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    Validating Function-Based Design Methods: an Explanationist Perspective.Dingmar van Eck - 2015 - Philosophy and Technology 28 (4):511-531.
    Analysis of the adequacy of engineering design methods, as well as analysis of the utility of concepts of function often invoked in these methods, is a neglected topic in both philosophy of technology and in engineering proper. In this paper, I present an approach—dubbed an explanationist perspective—for assessing the adequacy of function-based design methods. Engineering design is often intertwined with explanation, for instance, in reverse engineering and subsequent redesign, knowledge base-assisted designing, and diagnostic reasoning. I argue that the presented approach (...)
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  35. The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts.Caroline A. van Eck, James W. Mcallister & Renee van de Vall - 1997 - Philosophical Quarterly 47 (187):244-246.
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    Plato’s Theory of Negation and Falsity in Sophist 257 and 263: A New Defense of the Oxford Interpretation.Job van Eck - 2014 - Ancient Philosophy 34 (2):275-288.
  37. Falsity without Negative Predication: On Sophistes255e‐263d.Job van Eck - 1995 - Phronesis 40 (1):20-47.
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    IBE in engineering science - the case of malfunction explanation.Kristian González Barman & Dingmar van Eck - 2021 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (1):1-19.
    In this paper we investigate how inference to the best explanation (IBE) works in engineering science, focussing on the context of malfunction explanation. While IBE has gotten a lot of attention in the philosophy of science literature, few, if any, philosophical work has focussed on IBE in engineering science practice. We first show that IBE in engineering science has a similar structure as IBE in other scientific domains in the sense that in both settings IBE hinges on the weighing of (...)
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    Organicism in Nineteenth-Century Architecture: An Inquiry into Its Theoretical and Philosophical Background.Caroline van Eck - 1997 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (3):346-347.
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  40. (1 other version)Moving Like a Stream: Protagoras' Heracliteanism in Plato's Theaetetus.Job van Eck - 2009 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36:199.
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    Ethnic reasoning in social identity of Hebrews: A social-scientific study.Seth Kissi & Ernest Van Eck - 2017 - HTS Theological Studies 73 (3):1-9.
    Ethnicity reasoning offers one way of looking at social identity in the letter to the Hebrews. The context of socio-economic abuse and hardships of the audience creates a situation in which ethnicity in social identity becomes an important issue for the author of Hebrews to address. This article is a social-scientific study which explores how the author establishes the ethnic identity of the audience as people of God. While this ethnic identity indicates the more privileged position the readers occupy in (...)
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    (2 other versions)Inklusiwiteit as evangelie.Ernest Van Eck - 2009 - HTS Theological Studies 65 (1).
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    Editorial to the Van Aarde Festschrift.Ernest Van Eck & Yolanda Dreyer - 2011 - HTS Theological Studies 67 (1).
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    (1 other version)Mechanistic explanation in engineering science.Dingmar van Eck - 2015 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5 (3):349-375.
    In this paper I apply the mechanistic account of explanation to engineering science. I discuss two ways in which this extension offers further development of the mechanistic view. First, functional individuation of mechanisms in engineering science proceeds by means of two distinct sub types of role function, behavior function and effect function, rather than role function simpliciter. Second, it offers refined assessment of the explanatory power of mechanistic explanations. It is argued that in the context of malfunction explanations of technical (...)
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    Σκοπεîν έν λόγοις.Job van Eck - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (1):21-40.
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    Another interpretation of Aristotle's de interpretatione IX a support for the so-called second oldest or 'mediaeval' interpretation.Job Van Eck - 1988 - Vivarium 26 (1):19-38.
  47. Organicism in Nineteenth-Century Architecture: An Inquiry Into its Theoretical and Philosophical Background.Caroline van Eck - 1994 - Architectura & Natura Press.
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    (1 other version)Die gelykenisse van Jesus: Allegorieë of simbole van sosiale transformasie?Ernest van Eck - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (3):10.
    The parables of Jesus: Allegories or symbols of social transformation? This article reflects on a possible methodology that can be used to interpret the parables of Jesus preserved in the Synoptics (and the Gospel of Thomas). It is argued that the available versions of the parables of Jesus have already been allegorised, and that this should be taken into consideration when the extant versions of parables are interpreted as parables of the historical Jesus. The parables should also, as far as (...)
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    (1 other version)Invitations and excuses that are not invitations and excuses: Gossip in Luke 14:18–20.Ernest Van Eck - 2012 - HTS Theological Studies 68 (1).
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    Piero della Francesca's Giants.Caroline Van Eck & Paul Taylor - 1997 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 60 (1):243 - 247.
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