Erik Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculdades EST |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1508-2422 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Behind the Screen: Investigating ChatGPT’s Dark Personality Traits and Conspiracy Beliefs
ChatGPT is notorious for its untransparent behavior. This paper tries to shed light on this, providing an in‐depth analysis of the dark personality traits and conspiracy beliefs of GPT‐3.5 and GPT‐4. Different psychological tests and questionnaires were employed, including the Dark Factor Test, the MACH‐IV Scale, the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale, and the Conspiracy Mentality Scale. The responses were analyzed computing average scores, stand…
Trabalho, economia e sociedade: Um olhar histórico/social para as guildas medievais e a teologia de Lutero
Este artigo explora a relação entre trabalho, economia e sociedade através de uma análise histórica e social das guildas medievais e da teologia de Martinho Lutero. Argumenta-se que as guildas, enquanto organizações socioeconômicas, desempenharam um papel crucial na vida medieval, oferecendo não apenas regulamentação profissional, mas também segurança social e um senso de comunidade. A teologia de Lutero, por sua vez, com sua ênfase na vocação e …
Unification, the answer to resemblance questions
The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms
Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality
Rationality and irrationality in the history of continental drift: Was the hypothesis of continental drift worthy of pursuit
De-Ontologizing the Debate on Social Explanations: A Pragmatic Approach Based on Epistemic Interests
Counterfactual Causality, Empirical Research, and the Role of Theory in the Social Sciences
(2008). Counterfactual Causality, Empirical Research, and the Role of Theory in the Social Sciences. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 197-201
Reply to Daniel Steel's “With or Without Mechanisms”
In this discussion note I clarify the motivation behind my original paper “Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference and the Policy Relevance of Social Science.” I argue that one of the tasks of philosophers of social science is to draw attention to methodological problems that are often forgotten or overlooked. Then I show that my original paper does not make the mistake or fallacy that Daniel Steel suggests in his comment on it
A Pragmatist Defense of Non-relativistic Explanatory Pluralism in History and Social Science
Explanatory pluralism has been defended by several philosophers of history and social science, recently, for example, by Tor Egil Førland in this journal. In this article, we provide a better argument for explanatory pluralism, based on the pragmatist idea of epistemic interests. Second, we show that there are three quite different senses in which one can be an explanatory pluralist: one can be a pluralist about questions, a pluralist about answe…
Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference, and the Policy Relevance of Social Science
The paper has two aims. First, to show that we need social mechanisms to establish the policy relevance of causal claims, even if it is possible to build a good argument for those claims without knowledge of mechanisms. Second, to show that although social scientists can, in principle, do without social mechanisms when they argue for causal claims, in reality scientific practice contexts where they do not need mechanisms are very rare
The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought
1University of California, Los Angeles The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890–1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought Julian Wright Oxford Clarendon P. 2003 xvii + 286 N.p
Fashion Under the Occupation
Journal Article Fashion Under the Occupation Get access Eugen Weber Eugen Weber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 477, June 2003, Pages 841–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.477.841 Published: 01 June 2003
Explanation And Thought Experiments In History
Although interest in them is clearly growing, most professional historians do not accept thought experiments as appropriate tools. Advocates of the deliberate use of thought experiments in history argue that without counterfactuals, causal attributions in history do not make sense. Whereas such arguments play upon the meaning of causation in history, this article focuses on the reasoning processes by which historians arrive at causal explanations…
The Living Apart Together Relationship of Causation and Explanation: A Comment on Jean Lachapelle
En reponse a un article de J. Lachapelle consacre a «l'evolution culturelle, (au) reductionnisme dans les sciences sociales, et (au) pluralisme explicatif», l'A. critique la notion de reductionnisme ontologique, ainsi que les concepts de causalite et explication, definis par l'auteur, d'une part, mais reconnait partager avec lui la these du pluralisme explicatif, d'autre part
Unification And Explanation
Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914
Journal Article Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870–1914 Get access Eugen Weber Eugen Weber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 473, September 2002, Pages 1015–1016, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.1015 Published: 01 September 2002
Remote Causes, Bad Explanations
Unification: What is it, how do we Reach and why do we Want it
Rationality and irrationality in the history of continental drift: Was the hypothesis of continental drift worthy of pursuit
Remote Causes, Bad Explanations
A Pragmatist Defense of Non-relativistic Explanatory Pluralism in History and Social Science
Explanatory pluralism has been defended by several philosophers of history and social science, recently, for example, by Tor Egil Førland in this journal. In this article, we provide a better argument for explanatory pluralism, based on the pragmatist idea of epistemic interests. Second, we show that there are three quite different senses in which one can be an explanatory pluralist: one can be a pluralist about questions, a pluralist about answe…
Unification: What is it, how do we Reach and why do we Want it
Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference, and the Policy Relevance of Social Science
The paper has two aims. First, to show that we need social mechanisms to establish the policy relevance of causal claims, even if it is possible to build a good argument for those claims without knowledge of mechanisms. Second, to show that although social scientists can, in principle, do without social mechanisms when they argue for causal claims, in reality scientific practice contexts where they do not need mechanisms are very rare
Explanation And Thought Experiments In History
Although interest in them is clearly growing, most professional historians do not accept thought experiments as appropriate tools. Advocates of the deliberate use of thought experiments in history argue that without counterfactuals, causal attributions in history do not make sense. Whereas such arguments play upon the meaning of causation in history, this article focuses on the reasoning processes by which historians arrive at causal explanations…
Counterfactual Causality, Empirical Research, and the Role of Theory in the Social Sciences
(2008). Counterfactual Causality, Empirical Research, and the Role of Theory in the Social Sciences. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 197-201
Unification, the answer to resemblance questions
The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms
De-Ontologizing the Debate on Social Explanations: A Pragmatic Approach Based on Epistemic Interests
The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought
1University of California, Los Angeles The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890–1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought Julian Wright Oxford Clarendon P. 2003 xvii + 286 N.p
Unification And Explanation
Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914
Journal Article Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870–1914 Get access Eugen Weber Eugen Weber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 473, September 2002, Pages 1015–1016, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.1015 Published: 01 September 2002
Unification: What is it, how do we Reach and why do we Want it
The Living Apart Together Relationship of Causation and Explanation: A Comment on Jean Lachapelle
En reponse a un article de J. Lachapelle consacre a «l'evolution culturelle, (au) reductionnisme dans les sciences sociales, et (au) pluralisme explicatif», l'A. critique la notion de reductionnisme ontologique, ainsi que les concepts de causalite et explication, definis par l'auteur, d'une part, mais reconnait partager avec lui la these du pluralisme explicatif, d'autre part
Unification And Explanation
Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914
Journal Article Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870–1914 Get access Eugen Weber Eugen Weber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 473, September 2002, Pages 1015–1016, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.1015 Published: 01 September 2002
Remote Causes, Bad Explanations
Fashion Under the Occupation
Journal Article Fashion Under the Occupation Get access Eugen Weber Eugen Weber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 477, June 2003, Pages 841–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.477.841 Published: 01 June 2003
Explanation And Thought Experiments In History
Although interest in them is clearly growing, most professional historians do not accept thought experiments as appropriate tools. Advocates of the deliberate use of thought experiments in history argue that without counterfactuals, causal attributions in history do not make sense. Whereas such arguments play upon the meaning of causation in history, this article focuses on the reasoning processes by which historians arrive at causal explanations…
The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought
1University of California, Los Angeles The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890–1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought Julian Wright Oxford Clarendon P. 2003 xvii + 286 N.p
Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference, and the Policy Relevance of Social Science
The paper has two aims. First, to show that we need social mechanisms to establish the policy relevance of causal claims, even if it is possible to build a good argument for those claims without knowledge of mechanisms. Second, to show that although social scientists can, in principle, do without social mechanisms when they argue for causal claims, in reality scientific practice contexts where they do not need mechanisms are very rare
De-Ontologizing the Debate on Social Explanations: A Pragmatic Approach Based on Epistemic Interests
Counterfactual Causality, Empirical Research, and the Role of Theory in the Social Sciences
(2008). Counterfactual Causality, Empirical Research, and the Role of Theory in the Social Sciences. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 197-201
Reply to Daniel Steel's “With or Without Mechanisms”
In this discussion note I clarify the motivation behind my original paper “Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference and the Policy Relevance of Social Science.” I argue that one of the tasks of philosophers of social science is to draw attention to methodological problems that are often forgotten or overlooked. Then I show that my original paper does not make the mistake or fallacy that Daniel Steel suggests in his comment on it
A Pragmatist Defense of Non-relativistic Explanatory Pluralism in History and Social Science
Explanatory pluralism has been defended by several philosophers of history and social science, recently, for example, by Tor Egil Førland in this journal. In this article, we provide a better argument for explanatory pluralism, based on the pragmatist idea of epistemic interests. Second, we show that there are three quite different senses in which one can be an explanatory pluralist: one can be a pluralist about questions, a pluralist about answe…
Rationality and irrationality in the history of continental drift: Was the hypothesis of continental drift worthy of pursuit
Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality
The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms
Unification, the answer to resemblance questions
Trabalho, economia e sociedade: Um olhar histórico/social para as guildas medievais e a teologia de Lutero
Este artigo explora a relação entre trabalho, economia e sociedade através de uma análise histórica e social das guildas medievais e da teologia de Martinho Lutero. Argumenta-se que as guildas, enquanto organizações socioeconômicas, desempenharam um papel crucial na vida medieval, oferecendo não apenas regulamentação profissional, mas também segurança social e um senso de comunidade. A teologia de Lutero, por sua vez, com sua ênfase na vocação e …
Behind the Screen: Investigating ChatGPT’s Dark Personality Traits and Conspiracy Beliefs
ChatGPT is notorious for its untransparent behavior. This paper tries to shed light on this, providing an in‐depth analysis of the dark personality traits and conspiracy beliefs of GPT‐3.5 and GPT‐4. Different psychological tests and questionnaires were employed, including the Dark Factor Test, the MACH‐IV Scale, the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale, and the Conspiracy Mentality Scale. The responses were analyzed computing average scores, stand…
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