This essay explores the interplay between imagination and interpretation as foundational cognitive processes through which the human mind constructs and inhabits reality. Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of perception, and the realist philosophy of Maurizio Ferraris, the work argues that perception is never a neutral reception of stimuli but an active, meaning-laden act shaped by...
"A superb and original work. Tartaglia addresses head-on the question of the meaning of life — which he calls ‘the keystone of philosophy’ — and gives an uncompromising nihilist answer to it. But rather than turning to gloom and despair, he shows how nihilism is, in a certain sense, neither good nor bad; and that it can be used to address some central traditional questions of philosophy: about...