"The 2022
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workshop "What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives" centered on both the importance of theory development and practical aspects thereof. This focus is timely, due to ongoing methodological discussions surrounding the replication ..." 2/n
... and theory crises, practical steps that could be taken by individual researchers to address these crises, and potential reforms to scientific institutions to solve these and other problems." 3/n
"If we are interested in the whys and hows of theory development, then it is instructive to compare cognitive science and economics, since their methodological and cultural differences are so conspicuous." 4/n
"A few caveats are in order. First, both fields have obviously been shaped by their history. I don’t want to suggest that this history does not or should not make a difference or that one field can simply implement the strategies of another." 5/n
"For present purposes, the crucial observation is that there is basically no limit to the causal factors that can be relevant to the systems we are studying. Put differently, for any model of the system that one could develop, that model will be incomplete ...." 6/n
"Any such extreme and simplistic views about what constitutes science are now generally seen by philosophers of science as outdated. Science is not equal to a mathematical or an empirical methodology, nor to a special combination of the two" 7/n
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workshop "What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives" centered on both the importance of theory development and practical aspects thereof. This focus is timely, due to ongoing methodological discussions surrounding the replication ..." 2/n