Publications

Books

Parkkinen, V-P., Wallmann, C., Wilde, M., Clarke, B., Illari, P., Kelly, MP., Norell, C., Russo, F., Shaw, B., & Williamson, J. (2018). Evaluating evidence of mechanisms in medicine – principles and procedures. Springer. link

Journal articles

Parkkinen, V-P (2022). Variable relativity of causation is good. Synthese, 200(193). link

Parkkinen, V-P. & Baumgartner, M. (2021). Robustness and model selection in configurational causal modeling. Sociological methods and research (online first). link

Wilde, M. & Parkkinen, V-P. (2019). Extrapolation and the Russo-Williamson thesis. Synthese, 196(8), 3251-3262. link

Parkkinen, V-P. (2018). Are model organisms theoretical models? Disputatio, 9(47), 471-498. link.

Aronson JK., La Caze, A., Kelly, MP., Parkkinen, V-P., & Williamson, J. (2018). The use of mechanistic evidence in drug approval. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 24(5), 1166-1176. link

Parkkinen, V-P., Russo, F., & Wallmann, C. (2018). Scientific disagreement and evidential pluralism: Lessons from the studies on hypercholesterolemia. Humana Mente, 10(32), 75-116. link

Parkkinen, V-P. (2016). Experiment, downward causation and interventionist levels of explanation. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 30, 245-261. link

Parkkinen, V-P. (2016). Robustness and evidence of mechanisms in early experimental atherosclerosis research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 60, 44-55. link

Strand, A. & Parkkinen, V-P. (2015) Causation in evidence-based medicine: in reply to Kerry et al. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(3), 532-534. [ link]( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jep.12304)

Strand, A. & Parkkinen, V-P. (2014). Causal knowledge in evidence-based medicine. In reply to Kerry et al.’s ‘Causation and evidence-based practice: an ontological review’. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 20(6), 981-984. link

Oftedal, G. & Parkkinen, V-P. (2013). Genetic causation and synthetic biology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44(2), 208-216. link

Articles in edited collections

Parkkinen, V-P., & Williamson, J. (2020). “Extrapolating from model organisms in pharmacology”. In A. La Caze & B. Osimani (eds.) Uncertainty in pharmacology: Epistemology, methods, and decisions. Springer. link

Parkkinen, V-P. (2014). “Developmental explanation,” in M.C. Galavotti, D. Dieks, W.J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, M. Weber (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, London: Springer, 157-172. link

Software

frscore – an R package that implements a robustness test for cna, as descibed in Parkkinen & Baumgartner (2021). CRAN, GitHub (development version).