L’immaginazione al potere. Su Of the Understanding di David Hume secondo Tito Magri

Tito Magri introduces us to David Hume as a philosopher of the imagination, which is conceived of as the true “faculty of inferences”. In its absence, human beings could not make any valuable claims about the world or themselves. Magri offers a lengthy survey of the “cognitive gaps” that plague us and that only imagination can resolve, by enacting the relation between the epistemic status of the imaginative faculty and the structure of our “natural mind”. Through a tenacious examination of Hume’s formal arguments, Magri defends the idea his theoretical contribution is too often overlooked and makes Hume a valuable interlocutor for understanding the current state of research in the field of cognitive philosophy.