<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">van Eck, Dingmar</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Validating function-based design methods: an explanationist perspective</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philosophy and Technology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">511 - 531</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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 is useful for validating function-based design methods with respect to their explanatory elements and that it supports assessment of the explanatory and design utility of function, and the different conceptualizations thereof, as used in such engineering design methods. I deploy two key desiderata from the explanation literature to assess the viability of function-based design methods: explanatorily relevant difference-making factors and counterfactual understanding defined in terms of what-if-things-had-been-different questions. I explicate the approach and its merits in terms of two case studies drawn from the engineering functional modeling literature: reverse engineering and redesign and malfunction analysis. I close the paper by discussing ramifications of the presented approach for the philosophy of design and the philosophy of explanation.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Weber, Erik</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Bouwel, Jeroen</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Social Sciences and Democracy</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Palgrave Macmillan</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">181–194</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9780230224391</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">van der Waart van Gulik, Stephan</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vage logica's, concepten en betekenistransformatoren.</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May 30</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghent University</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghent</style></pub-location><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">phd</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Joke Meheus&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heeffer, Albrecht</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Precepten tot Vergelijkingen. De Conceptuele Ontwikkeling van Symbolische Algebra in de Zestiende Eeuw</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">February 22</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghent University</style></publisher><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">phd</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Diderik Batens&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ducheyne, Steffen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Virtuosi at Work: Historical-Philosophical Essays on Causality and Methodology in the Natural Philosophy of Galileo, Huyghens and Newton</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">March 1</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghent University</style></publisher><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">phd</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Erik Weber&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Kerkhove, Bart</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vanackere, Guido</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vagueness-Adaptive Logic: A Pragmatical Approach to Sorites Paradoxes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Studia Logica</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">adaptive logic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">construction of scientific theories</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">paraconsistent logic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">philosophical logic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">philosophy of language</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sorites paradox</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">vagueness</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B%3ASTUD.0000009567.21578.0a</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">75</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">383-411</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This paper defends a pragmatical approach to vagueness. The vagueness-adaptive logic VAL is a good reconstruction of and an excellent, instrument for human reasoning processes in which vague predicates are involved. Apart from its proof-theory and semantics, a Sorites-treating model based on it is presented, disarming the paradox. The paper opens perspectives with respect to the construction of theories by means of vague predicates.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Bouwel, Jeroen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Verklaringspluralisme in de sociale wetenschappen</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Belgisch tijdschrift voor nieuwste geschiedenis  Revue belge dhistoire</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–2</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">33</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">303–311</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Bouwel, Jeroen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Verklaringspluralisme in de Sociale Wetenschappen. Een Wetenschapsfilosofische Verdediging met Toepassingen in de Geschiedbeoefening, de Theorie van Internationale Relaties en de Economische Wetenschappen</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">January 31</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghent University</style></publisher><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">phd</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Erik Weber&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Bendegem, Jean Paul</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Kerckhove, Christian</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vrijzinnig (?) humanisme (?) in een moderne (?) wereld.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grondslagen Vrijzinnig Humanisme</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humanistisch Vrijzinnige Dienst</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antwerpen</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">149-169</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Batens, Diderik</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Mey, Marc</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pinxten, Rik</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poriau, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vandamme, Fernand</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Verisimilitude and meaning relations</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CC77. International Workshop on the Cognitive Viewpoint</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1977</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghent University</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">321–328</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record></records></xml>