What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

From the new issue: Markus Eronen & Grant Ramsey ‘What Are the "Levels" in Levels of Selection?' Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky #hps #hpbio

🚨Preprint alert! 🚨 In this one, @mieronen.bsky.social and I argue that using network psychometrics, DAGs or BNs to study predictions of the network theory of psychopathology (NT) is conceptually incoherent. Why? NT either directly contradicts or cannot support causal sufficiency! 1/11

Een pleidooi van Prof. Laura Batstra waar ik het hartgrondig mee eens ben. "Procentuele verhogingen vergroten loonverschillen en bevoordelen vooral de top van een organisatie." 1/ www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/dit-...

Latest papers: Markus Ilkka Eronen presents a new causal perspective to psychological measurement and argues that psychological measurement is fundamentally different from measurement in the physical sciences in this open access article buff.ly/3HrrqtS

Workshop announcement: We organize a workshop on the interaction between conceptualization and measurement across all scientific disciplines for early-career researchers located in Europe. More info and application here ias.uva.nl/content/even... Thanks for sharing!

Excellent new paper by @mieronen.bsky.social on whether psychologists actually measure anything at all. Lays out a minimal causal condition for measurement, argues that psych vars do not satisfy it & distinguishes between "hard" and "soft measurement."> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A thoroughly revised version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Levels of Organization in Biology, written by me and Dan Brooks, has now been published! Very happy to see this online, writing it was a nice but long process. plato.stanford.edu/entries/leve...

More from the new issue (and open access!): Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation —Alexander Gebharter & Markus Eronen www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

New issue out now, full to the brim of crunchy and nutritious* philosophy of science www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur... *Contains science communication & superdeterminism, machine behaviour & monothematic delusions, neural oscillations & analogue computation, & much more... #philsky #philsci

>4500 codes distributed! Please spread the word amongst clinicians, scientists, researchers, technicians, academics, and other scholars who would like to join: forms.gle/f3k65vC1JwgY... 🩺 🧪