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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 logical priority to creative persons, creative processes, or creative products? How do forms of creativity relate to different domains of human activity? How does creativity relate to self-transformation? How does our knowledge of the circumstances of creativity effect our appreciation of its products? Can a recipient of a creative work also be a creator of it? Contributors include: Margaret Boden, Larry Briskman, John M. Carvalho, David Davies, Berys Gaut, Rom Harre, Carl R. Hausman, Albert Hofstadter, Arthur Koestler, Michael Krausz, Peter Lamarque, Thomas Leddy, Paisley Livingston, Michael Polany, Dean Keith Simonton, and Francis Sparshott. This book is also available in hardcover.



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction, Michael Krausz Part One. Explaining Creativity: Persons, Processes, and Products 1. Criteria of Creativity, Carl R. Hausman 2. Creative Product and Creative Process in Science and Art, Larry Briskman 3. The Rationality of Creativity, I. C. Jarvie 4. Creativity as a Darwinian Phenomenon: The Blind-Variation and Selective-Retention Model, Dean Keith Simonton 5. Creativity and Skill, Berys Gaut 6. On Bringing a Work into Existence, Peter Lamarque Part Two. Creativity, Imagination, and Self 7. Poincare´s ´Delicate Sieve´ On Creativity and Constraints in the Arts, Paisley Livingston 8. The Creative Imagination, Michael Polanyi 9. Every Horse has a Mouth: A Personal Poetics, F. E. Sparshott 10. Creativity and Self-Transformation, Michael Krausz 11. On the Dialectical Phenomenology of Creativity, Albert Hofstadter 12. The Artistic Relevance of Creativity, David Davies Part Three. Forms and Domains of Creativity 13. Creativity: How Does it Work?, Margaret Boden 14. The Three Domains of Creativity, Arthur Koestler 15. Creativity in Science, Rom Harre 16. Creative Interpretation of Literary Texts, Thomas Leddy 17. Creativity in Philosophy and the Arts, John M. Carvalho Index