Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maia, Tiago V.
• Huys, Quentin J.M.
• Frank, Michael J.

Titel

Theory-Based Computational Psychiatry

Ist Teil von

• Biological psychiatry (1969), 2017-09, Vol.82 (6), p.382-384

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• © 2017 Society of Biological Psychiatry Theory development is an intrinsic part of science. Radical empiricism is a logical impossibility: the number of phenomena that can be measured and manipulated is infinite, so the very selection of phenomena to investigate must be driven by a priori considerations. Loose facts, moreover, point to nothing but themselves; only theories, even if incipient, have explanatory and predictive power extending beyond prior observations. Yet, theory is sometimes seen with suspicion. This work was supported by Swiss National Science Foundation Grant No. 320030L_153449/1 (to QJMH) and National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. R01 MH080066-01 (to MJF).