The need of a unified theory of imagining
Luca Tateo,
The Junkyard,
Oct 07, 2021
This is an interesting post that leads us to think in more detail about imagination. We usually think of imagination as wholly fictional, in the sense that we 'make up' a reality, and limit its purpose to things like creating art and literature. But Luca Tateo thinks of 'imaginary' and 'real' not as alternatives, but rather, two overlapping forms of 'real' which lead to the generation of new (and sometimes unexpected) knowledge. "Imaginative work supports the production of judgments and plans about past, present, and future. I am here stressing the feature of complementarity rather than alterity, something that already Hume envisaged with its thought-experiment of the shades of blue."
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