ArticleComputational brain & behavior2024
What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good?
Article in Computational brain & behavior, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- To Be FAIR: Theory Specification Needs an Update.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
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- Climate Change and Sustainability in Health Professions Education: A Realist Review Protocol.HRB open research · 2025Article
- Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
- What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
- Network analysis: An overview for mental health research.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Review
- From Empirical Problem-Solving to Theoretical Problem-Finding Perspectives on the Cognitive Sciences.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
- Can a Good Theory Be Built Using Bad Ingredients?Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
- The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
I present an ontology of criteria for evaluating theory to answer the titular question from the perspective of a scientist practitioner. Set inside a formal account of our adjudication over theories, a
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