For my NIAS project Tools for theory, I’m reading up on theory & psychology, both recent and older papers. I will be tweeting about them in “Now Reading” threads.

I am compiling below a list of papers that have associated threads. If you click the links you’ll be taken to the relevant threads with highlights from the papers, usually including some of my own thoughts and reflections.

• Bickhard, M. H. (2001) The tragedy of operationalism. Theory & Psychology

• Bechtel, B. & Shagrir, O. (2015) The non-redundant contributions of Marr’s three levels of analysis for explaining information-processing mechanisms. Topics in Cognitive Science

• Bonawitz, E., Denison,S., Griffiths, T. & Gopnik, A. (2014) Probabilistic models, learning algorithms, and response variability: sampling in cognitive development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Bschir, Lohse, & Chang (2019) Introduction: systematicity, the nature of science? Synthese

• Cooper, R. & Guest, O. (2014) Implementations are not specifications: Specification, replication and experimentation in computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research

• Davis-Stober, C. & Regenwetter, M. (2019) The ‘paradox’ of converging evidence. Psych Review, 2019

• Douven, I. (2017) Peirce on Abduction. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Eronen, M. & Romeijn, J-W. (2020). Philosophy of science and the formalization of psychological theory. Theory & Psychology

• Flis, I. (2019) Psychologists psychologizing scientific psychology: An epistemological reading of the replication crisis. Theory & Psychology

• Gergen, K. (1973) Social psychology as history. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Guest. O & Martin, A. E. (2020/in press) How computational modeling can force theory building in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Gigerenzer, G. (2020) How to explain behavior? Topics in Cognitive Science

• Griffiths, Lieder, & Goodman (2015) Rational use of cognitive resources: levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic. Topics in Cognitive Science

• Haig, B. (2009) A neglected approach to theory appraisal in psychology. American Journal of Psychology

• Hand, D. J. (1996). Statistics and the theory of measurement. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

• Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective Feminist Studies

• Irvine, E. (2021) The role of replication studies in theory building Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Kellen, D., Davis-Stober, C., Dunn, J., & Kalish, M. (2020/in press). The problem of coordination and the pursuit of structural constraints in psychology Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Jarecki, J.B., Tan, J.H. & Jenny, M.A. (2020) A framework for building cognitive process models. Psychon Bull Rev

• Kaplan, D. M. (2011) Explanation and description in computational neuroscience Synthese

• Lilburn, S., Little, D., Osth, A. & Smith, P.L. (2019) Cultural problems cannot be solved with technical solutions alone. Computational Brain & Behaviour

• MacEachern, S.N. & Van Zandt, T. (2019) Preregistration of modeling exercises may not be useful. Computational Brain & Behaviour

• Marr, D. (1977) Artificial Intelligence–A Personal View. Artificial Intelligence

• Navarro, D. (2020/in press). If mathematical psychology did not exist we might need to invent it: A comment on theory building in psychology Perspectives on Psychological Science.

• Newell, A. (1973) You can’t play 20 questions with nature and win. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition

• Poeppel, D., & Adolfi, F. (2020). Against the epistemological primacy of the hardware: The brain from inside out, turned upside down. eNeuro ** New **

• Simon, H. (1990) Invariants of human behavior. Annual Review of Psychology

• Smaldino, P. (2019) Better methods can’t make up for mediocre theory. Nature

• Szollosi, A., & Donkin, C. (2019) Arrested theory development: The misguided distinction between exploratory and confirmatory research. PsyArXiv

• Toomela, A. (2020) Psychology today: Still in denial, still outdated. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

• Thagard, P. (2009). Why cognitive science needs philosophy and vice versa. Topics in Cognitive Science ** New **

• Varma, S. (2014) The subjective meaning of cognitive architecture: a Marrian analysis. Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Last updated on 27-12-2021