Imagination is important for many things in science: solving problems, interpreting data, designing studies, and much else. Philosophers of imagination typically account for the productive role played by imagination in science by focusing on how imagination is constrained, for example, by self-imposed rules to infer logically or model events accurately. But the constraints offered by these philosophers constrain either too much or not enough, and they can never account for uses of imagination that are needed to break today’s constraints in order to make progress tomorrow. Thus, epistemology of imagination needs to make room for an element of epistemological anarchy.

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科学想象的生产性无政府状态

想象力对科学中的许多事情都很重要：解决问题、解释数据、设计研究等等。想象力哲学家通常通过关注想象力如何受到约束来解释想象力在科学中所发挥的生产性作用，例如，通过自我强加的规则来准确地推断或模拟事件。但是，这些哲学家提供的约束不是太多就是不够，而且他们永远无法解释为打破今天的限制而在明天取得进步所需的想象力的使用。因此，想象的认识论需要为认识论的无政府状态元素腾出空间。