Theory in psychology
Bringmann, L. F., Helmich, M. A., Eronen, M. I., Voelkle, M. C. (in press). Complex systems approaches to psychopathology. In Krueger, R. F. & Blaney, P. H., (Eds.) Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology. Oxford University Press.
Bringmann, L. F., Albers, C., Bockting, C., Borsboom, D., Ceulemans, E., … Eronen, M. I., … & Wichers, M. (2022). Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice. Behaviour research and therapy, 149, 104011. [link, open access]
Bringmann, L. F., Elmer, T., & Eronen, M. I. (2022). Back to basics: The importance of conceptual clarification in psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(4), 340-346. [link, open access]
Eronen, M. I. & Bringmann, L. F. (2021). The theory crisis in psychology: How to move forward. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [link, open access]
Eronen, M. I. & Romeijn, J.-W. (2020). Philosophy of science and the formalization of psychological theory. Theory & Psychology 30(6), 786-799. [link, open access]
Eronen, M. I. & Bringmann, L. F. (2019). Networks, intentionality and multiple realizability: Not enough to block reductionism [peer commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42, e8. [pdf] [link]
Bringmann, L. F. & Eronen, M. I. (2018). Don’t blame the model: Reconsidering the network approach to psychopathology. Psychological Review 125(4), 606-615. [pdf] [link]
Bringmann, L. & Eronen, M. I. (2016). Heating up the measurement debate: What psychologists can learn from the history of physics. Theory & Psychology 26(1), 27-43. [pdf] [link]
Levels
Eronen, M. I. & Ramsey, G. (accepted). What are the ‘levels’ in levels of selection? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. [pdf]
Eronen, M. I. (2021). The levels problem in psychopathology. Psychological Medicine. [pdf] [link] [Reply by H. Riese and M. Wichers]
Eronen, M. I. (2021). Levels, Nests and Branches: Compositional Organization and Downward Causation in Biology. In D. Brooks, J. DiFrisco and W. Wimsatt (eds.) Hierarchy and Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. MIT Press. [pdf]
Eronen, M. I. (2020). Levels of Organization in Evo-Devo. In L. Nuño de la Rosa & G. Müller (eds.) The Evolutionary Developmental Biology Reference Guide. Springer. [link]
Brooks, D. & Eronen, M. I. (2018). The significance of levels of organization for scientific research: A heuristic approach. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 68-69, 34-41. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. & Brooks, D. (2018). Levels of Organization in Biology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Eronen, M. I. (2015a). Levels of Organization: A Deflationary Account. Biology & Philosophy 30(1), 39-58. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2013). No Levels, No Problems: Downward Causation in Neuroscience. Philosophy of Science 80(5), 1042-1052. [pdf] [link]
Interventionist mental causation
Gebharter, A. & Eronen, M. I. (accepted). Quantifying proportionality and the limits of higher-level causation and explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. [pdf]
Eronen, M. I. (2020). Causal discovery and the problem of psychological interventions. New Ideas In Psychology 59, 100785. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2020). Interventionism for the intentional stance: True believers and their brains. Topoi 39(1), 45-55. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. & Brooks, D. (2014). Interventionism and Supervenience: A New Problem and Provisional Solution. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 28(2), 185-202. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2012). Pluralistic Physicalism and the Causal Exclusion Argument. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 2(2), 219-232. [pdf] [link]
Robustness and scientific realism
Eronen, M. I. (2019a). Psychopathology and truth: A defense of realism. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 44(4), 507-520. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2019b). Robust realism for the life sciences. Synthese 196(6), 2341-2354. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2016). Robustness is the kind of coherence that matters – a comment on Kendler (2015). Psychological Medicine 46(7), 1563-1564. [link] [Reply by Kendler in the same issue, pp. 1565-1566].
Eronen, M. I. (2015b). Robustness and Reality. Synthese 192(12), 3961-3977. [pdf] [link]
Reduction and emergence
Eronen, M. I. (2019). Emergence. In G. A. Schwartz & V. Bermudez (eds.) #Nodes. Entangling Sciences and Humanities. Chicago: Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 189-191.
Eronen, M. I. (2014). Hypothetical Identities: Explanatory Problems for the Explanatory Argument. Philosophical Psychology 27(4), 571-582. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2013). Realization and Robustness: Naturalizing Non-Reductive Physicalism. In K. Talmont-Kaminski & M. Milkowski (eds.) Regarding the Mind, Naturally: Naturalist Approaches to the Sciences of the Mental. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 119-137. [pdf]
Raerinne, J. & Eronen, M. I. (2012) Multiple Realizability and Biological Laws. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 34, 521-538. [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2011). Reduction in Philosophy of Mind: A Pluralistic Account. Frankfurt am Main: Ontos (De Gruyter). [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2011). Replacing Functional Reduction with Mechanistic Explanation. Philosophia Naturalis 47-48, 125-153. [pdf] [link]
Walter, S. & Eronen, M. I. (2011) Reductionism, Multiple Realizability, and Levels of Reality. In S. French & J. Saatsi (eds.) Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science. London: Continuum, 138-156. [pdf]
Eronen, M. I. (2009). Reductionist Challenges to Explanatory Pluralism: Comment on McCauley. Philosophical Psychology 22, 637-646. [pdf] [link]
Eronen, M. I. (2008). Explaining the Brain: Ruthless Reductionism or Multilevel Mechanisms? Papers of the 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vol. XVI, 86-88. [pdf]
Eronen, M. I. (2004). Emergence in the Philosophy of Mind. Master’s thesis, University of Helsinki. [link]