Dunja Šešelja gave a talk at the “Modelling in Philosophy” Workshop:
In this talk I first examine the role of highly-idealized agent-based models in philosophy, focusing on the kind of explanation they provide. After arguing that they initially always provide epistemically opaque hoe-possibly explanations, I discuss different ways in which this opaqueness can be reduced: robustness analyses, empirical evaluation and, the targeted monotonicity analysis.