The idea of creativity

Seventeen philosophers, scientists and artists consider questions about the intriguing idea of creativity: Is creativity essentially mysterious? Is creativity essentially inspirational or rationalistic? What role does skill play in creativity? What are the criteria of creativity? Should we assign lo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krausz, Michael (-), Dutton, Denis, Bardsley, Karen
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2009.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 28.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798492806719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael Krausz
  • Explaining creativity : persons, processes, and products
  • Criteria of creativity / Carl R. Hausman
  • Creative product and creative process in science and art / Larry Briskman
  • The rationality of creativity / I.C. Jarvie
  • Creativity as a Darwinian phenomenon : the blind-variation and selective-retention model / Dean Keith Simonton
  • Creativity and skill / Berys Gaut
  • On bringing a work into existence / Peter Lamarque
  • Creativity, imagination, and self
  • Poincare's 'delicate sieve' : on creativity and constraints in the arts / Paisley Livingston
  • The creative imagination / Michael Polanyi
  • Every horse has a mouth : a personal poetics / F.E. Sparshott
  • Creativity and self-transformation / Michael Krausz
  • On the dialectical phenomenology of creativity / Albert Hofstadter
  • The artistic relevance of creativity / David Davies
  • Forms and domains of creativity
  • Creativity : how does it work? / Margaret Boden
  • The three domains of creativity / Arthur Koestler
  • Creativity in science / Rom Harre
  • Creative interpretation of literary texts / Thomas Leddy
  • Creativity in philosophy and the arts / John M. Carvalho.