What is a work of art and what is its nature? Is it possible to define the nature of phenomena and artistic artifacts through the practices and procedures that involve and determine the objects of art?
Roberto Casati is directeur de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and directeur d'études at the Institut Nicod in Paris. He has worked on cognitive processes, the phenomenology of space and objects and the conversational theory of artistic artifacts. Among his books published in Italy: Buchi e altre superficialità (Milano 2002); Semplicità insormontabili (con A. Varzi, Roma-Bari 2004); Prima lezione di filosofia (Roma-Bari 2011); Contro il colonialismo digitale. Istruzioni per continuare a leggere (Roma-Bari 2013); Semplicemente diaboliche. 100 nuove storie filosofiche (con A. Varzi, Roma-Bari 2017).