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University of Geneva: Geneva, CH

2011-09-01 to present | Full Professor (Philosophy)
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Marcel Weber

University of Konstanz: Konstanz, DE

2009-04-01 to 2011-09-01 | Professor (W3) (Philosophy)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Leibniz University Hannover: Hanover, DE

2002-05-29 to present | Venia legendi (Habilitation) (Philosophy)
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Marcel Weber

University of Konstanz: Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, DE

1996-07-07 to present | Ph.D. (Philosophy)
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German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Halle, DE

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Academia Europaea: London, London, GB

2023 (Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies)
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Works (36)

Modeling the Biologically Possible: Evolvability as a Modal Concept

Modeling the Possible. Perspectives from Philosophy of Science
2025 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781032379647
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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What you can do for evolutionary developmental linguistics

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
2025-12-16 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1879-4912
Part of ISSN: 1879-4920
Contributors: William C. Bausman; Marcel Weber
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The Reduction of Classical Experimental Embryology to Molecular Developmental Biology: A Tale of Three Sciences

From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics
2023-12 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781452970561
Part of ISSN: 0076-9258
Contributors: Richard Creath; Marc Ereshefsky; Marie I. Kaiser; Thomas A. C. Reydon; Lauren N. Ross; Rose Trappes; Marcel Weber; William C. Wimsatt; William C. Bausman; Janella K. Baxter et al.
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Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
2022-11-28 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1879-4912
Part of ISSN: 1879-4920
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Determinism, Realism, and Probability in Evolutionary Theory

Philosophy of Science
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Fitness Made Physical: The Supervenience of Biological Concepts Revisited

Philosophy of Science
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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The Aim and Structure of Ecological Theory

Philosophy of Science
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Philosophy of Developmental Biology

2022-03-31 | Book
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Marcel Weber

Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation

Philosophy of Science
2022-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Experimental Modeling in Biology: In Vivo Representation and Stand-Ins as Modeling Strategies

Philosophy of Science
2022-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Indeterminism in Neurobiology

Philosophy of Science
2022-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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On the Incompatibility of Dynamical Biological Mechanisms and Causal Graphs

Philosophy of Science
2022-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Which Kind of Causal Specificity Matters Biologically?

Philosophy of Science
2022-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8248
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila

Science without Laws
2020 | Other
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Thought Experiments in Biology

The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
2017-07 | Other
Contributors: Guillaume Schlaepfer; Marcel Weber
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How objective are biological functions?

Synthese
2017-07-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0039-7857
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Handbuch Wissenschaftssoziologie
2012 | Other
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Experimentation versus Theory Choice: A Social-Epistemological Approach

Collective Epistemology
2011 | Other
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Behavioral Traits, the Intentional Stance, and Biological Functions: What Neuroscience Explains

Philosophy of Behavioral Biology
2011-09 | Other
Part of ISSN: 0068-0346
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Life in a Physical World: The Place of the Life Sciences

The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science
2010-04 | Other
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Menschliches Leben

2009-08-28 | Book
Contributors: Sebastian Knell; Marcel Weber
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The Crux of Crucial Experiments: Duhem's Problems and Inference to the Best Explanation

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2009-03-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0007-0882
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Commentary on “is Science Cumulative? a Physicist Viewpoint”, by Bernard d’Espagnat

Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison
2008 | Other
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Wissenschaftstheorie der Evaluation

Wissenschaft unter Beobachtung
2008 | Other
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Critical notice: Darwinian reductionism

Biology & Philosophy
2007-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0169-3867
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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The Central Dogma as a thesis of causal specificity.

History and philosophy of the life sciences
2006-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Weber M
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Walking on the chromosome: Drosophila and the molecularization of development

From Molecular Genetics to Genomics
2004-10-07 | Other
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Philosophy of Experimental Biology

2004-08-30 | Book
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Marcel Weber

Incommensurability and theory comparison in experimental biology

Biology & Philosophy
2002-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0169-3867
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Theory testing in experimental biology: the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2002-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1369-8486
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Representing genes: classical mapping techniques and the growth of genetical knowledge

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
1998-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1369-8486
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Die Architektur der Synthese

DE GRUYTER
1998-02-27 | Book
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Evolutionary plasticity in prokaryotes: A panglossian view

Biology & Philosophy
1996-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0169-3867
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Wissenschaftskommunikation und Umweltprobleme

Ökologisches Handeln als sozialer Prozess
1995 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783764351670
Part of ISBN: 9783034850452
Contributors: Marcel Weber
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Protein import into mitochondria in a homologous yeast in vitro system

Journal of Biological Chemistry
1989-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0021-9258
Contributors: K Verner; M Weber
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Experimentation

A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
Other
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