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Dr Tuomas K. Pernu: senior lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), research fellow at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, research associate in Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Initiative at King's College London, chairman of the panel of judges for The Annual Sowerby Essay Contest, chairman of the organising committee for Biosynthesis, associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology, founder and managing director of Velocitor Ltd, founder and director of Tour de Helsinki, farmer in Punkaharju, ordained minister of The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, fan of Phil Collins. Among other things.

Publications in International Refereed Journals

  • Pernu, T. K. & Elzein, N. (2020). “From neuroscience to law: bridging the gap”. Frontiers in Psychology 11:1862. [Link access]
  • Elzein, N. & Pernu, T. K. (2019). “To be able to, or to be able not to? That is the question. A problem for the transcendental argument for free will”. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 15, p. 25-44. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. & Helanterä, H. (2019). “Genetic relatedness and its causal role in the evolution of insect societies”. Journal of Biosciences 44:107. [draft pdf] [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. & Helanterä, H. (2019). “Social evolution and the two elements of causation”. Oikos 128, p. 905-911. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. & Roush S., eds (2019). Self-Knowledge In and Out of Illness. A special issue of Palgrave Communications. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2019). “Elimination, not reduction: lessons from the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and multiple realisation”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42, e22. [draft pdf] [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2019). “Causal explanation in psychiatry”. In Ş. Tekin & R. Bluhm eds, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [draft pdf] [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2018). “Mental causation via neuroprosthetics? A critical analysis”. Synthese 195, p. 5159-5174. [pdf] [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2018). ”Causal overdetermination: still crazy after all these years. Part I: what is at stake?”. The Philosophical Forum 49, p. 231-244. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2017). “Can physics make us free?”. Frontiers in Physics 5:64. [pdf] [Link access]
  • Elzein, N. & Pernu, T. K. (2017). “Supervenient freedom and the free will deadlock”. Disputatio 9, p. 219-243. [pdf] [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2017). “The five marks of the mental”. Frontiers in Psychology 8:1084. [pdf] [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2016). “Causal exclusion and downward counterfactuals”. Erkenntnis 81, p. 1031-1049. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2014). “Causal exclusion and multiple realizations”. Topoi 33, p. 525-530. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2014). “Interventions on causal exclusion”. Philosophical Explorations 17, p. 255-263. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2013). ”Does the interventionist notion of causation deliver us from the fear of epiphenomenalism?”. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27, p. 157-172. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2013). “The principle of causal exclusion does not make sense”. The Philosophical Forum 44, p. 89-95. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. & Annila, A. (2012). ”Natural emergence”. Complexity 17, p. 44-47. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2011). ”Minding matter: how not to argue for the causal efficacy of the mental”. Reviews in the Neurosciences 22, p. 483-507. [pdf] [Link access]
  • Tuisku, P., Pernu, T. K. & Annila, A. (2009). ”In the light of time”. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences 465, p. 1173-1198. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2009). ”Is knowledge a natural kind?”. Philosophical Studies 142, p. 371-386. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2008). ”Philosophy and the front line of science”. The Quarterly Review of Biology 83, p. 29-36. [Link access]

Other Publications

  • Pernu, T. K. (2021). ”Tiede on empirian ja ideologian kokonaisuus”. In UEF Puheenvuoroja Blog 15.04.2021. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2020). ”COVID-19 and control: an essay from a pragmatic perspective on science”. In M. Andrews ed., Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2019). ”Jaegwon Kim 1934-2019”. Helsingin sanomat 09.12.2019. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2017). ”Jerry Fodor 1935-2017”. Helsingin sanomat 13.12.2017, p. B16. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2017). Review of The Multiple Realization Book by Thomas W. Polger & Lawrence A. Shapiro (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Metapsychology Online Reviews 21. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2016). Review of On Being Human: Why Mind Matters by Jerome Kagan (New Haven & London: Yale University Press). Metapsychology Online Reviews 20. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2014). ”Interaktioita ja ekskluusioita: tutkimuksia kausaalisesta selittämisestä naturalistisessa mielenfilosofiassa”. Ajatus 71, p. 299-305.
  • Pernu, T. K. & al. (2014). Raportti Helsingin yliopiston ylioppilaskunnan valiokunta- ja vapaaehtoistoiminnan kehittämisestä [Report on Developing the Committee and Voluntary Work in the Student Union of the University of Helsinki]. The Student Union of the University of Helsinki. [pdf]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2013). Interactions and Exclusions: Studies on Causal Explanation in Naturalistic Philosophy of Mind. Dissertationes Biocentri Viikki Universitas Helsingiensis 36/2013. [Link access]
  • Pernu, T. K. (2013). ”Tutkimusdatan avaaminen on uhka laadulle”. Helsingin sanomat 28.11.2013, p. B11.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2013). ”Pyöräilyn ytimessä”, editorial. Tour de Helsinki – Opas pyöräilykauteen 2013, p. 7-9. [pdf]
  • Pernu, T. K. & Lohi, H. (2012). ”Koiranjalostus käy evoluutiosta”. Helsingin sanomat 18.10.2012, p. C7.
  • Pernu, T. K., (2012). Editorial. Tour de Helsinki – Opas pyöräilykauteen 2012, p. 7. [pdf]
  • Pernu, T. K., (2012). ”Luonnonvalinnalta puuttuu tarkoitus”. Helsingin sanomat 18.05.2012, p. C8.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2009). ”Ajankohtaisesti evoluutioteoriasta”. Tieteessä tapahtuu 4-5/2009, p. 74-75.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2009). ”Pyöräilijät halutaan vain häätää kiertoreiteilleen”. Helsingin sanomat 15.05.2009, p. C7.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2007). “Pölyn laskeuduttua: Tour de Helsinki 2007”. Pyöräily 3/2007, p. 17-20.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2007). ”Aivotutkimus ei uhkaa vapaata tahtoa”. Helsingin sanomat 03.04.2007, p. D2.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2007). ”Kausaliteettien hetteikössä rämpimässä”. Psykologia 1/2007, p. 51-54.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2006). ”Pelastaako reduktionismi mentaalisen kausaation?”. Psykologia 6/2006, p. 473-474.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2006). ”Suomalainen ikkuna tietoisuuteen, unisieppari auttaisi”. Helsingin sanomat 05.09.2006, p. D2.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2006). ”Lajille ei ole olemassa yksiselitteistä määritelmää”. Helsingin sanomat 17.08.2006, p. C7.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2006). ”Mielen rajoja vetämässä”. Psykologia 4/2006, p. 311-312.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2005). ”Mieli palautuu aivojen fysiologiaan”. Helsingin sanomat 11.10.2005, p. D3.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2005). “Onko mielellä merkitystä?”. Psykologia 2/2005, p. 187–190.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2003). “Kohtaaminen universumin herrojen kanssa”. In T. Kaitaro & M. Roinila (eds), Filosofin kuolema. Helsinki: Summa.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2003). “Ihmismieli on luonnon tuote – mutta miltä osiltaan”, Helsingin sanomat 01.02.2003, p. C15.
  • Pernu, T. K. (2002). Digitaalinen mieli analogisessa maailmassa: semanttisen supervenienssin kysymys epistemologiassa ja mielenfilosofiassa [Digital Mind in Analogue World: The Issue of Semantic Supervenience in Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind]. MA Thesis, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki.

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