Arnon Levy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Exploration involves an inherent tension: it requires creativity, which embodies a certain freedom from tracking actuality. But to provide genuine epistemic fruits, exploration must exhibit systematicity - a guarantee that it cover and properly evaluate the relevant possibilities. I argue that this provides support for a view of modeling that places significant weight on the imagination. But I also argue, contra some recent proposals, that the role of modeling in exploration suggests that models are not a species of fiction - i.e. a use of our imagination that differs from (artistic) fiction-making in some fundamental ways.
