Creativity and Philosophy by Berys Gaut,Matthew Kieran -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half-Title Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors 1 Philosophising about creativity

1 The background 2 The volume Note References

PART I Creativity as a virtue

2 Creativity, imagination and intellectual virtue

I The definition problem II Imagination as central for creativity III Creativity and imaginativeness as virtues IV Creativity as a human good Notes References

3 Intellectual creativity

The structure of an intellectual virtue Creativity: a sketch Some putative features of creativity Skill dimension Motivational dimension Affective dimension Judgment component Conclusion Notes References

4 Creativity and knowledge

Creativity and value Epistemic value Creative value Value and virtue Creative value and creative failure Epistemic injustice and creative injustice Conclusions Acknowledgements References

5 Creativity, vanity and narcissism

1 Introduction 2 A virtue theoretic approach to creative character and the challenge 3 Vanity Fair 4 The nature of vanity 5 Vanity and creative endeavour 6 Vanity as a creative strength? 7 A new challenge? 8 (Un)Creative alienation from others 9 Creative imprudence 10 From vanity as a creative vice to creative virtue Note References

PART II Creativity and value

6 Creativity without value

1 Introduction 2 Creativity is not essentially disposed towards producing value 3 The original nonsense argument 4 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References

7 Explicating ‘creativity’

1 Kinds of novelty 2 Creativity and value 3 Novelty and its values Conclusion Notes References Further reading

8 The value of creativity

1 Disposition or capacity? 2 Newness and value 3 Instrumental and final value 4 Conditional value 5 Creativity as a kind of agency 6 The value of creative agency 7 Creativity as a kind of spontaneity 8 Conclusion Notes References

9 The active and passive life of creativity: an essay in a Platonic key

Creativity and fantasy Creativity in a Platonic context Notes References

10 Artistic creativity and suffering

1 What sort of connection? 2 Assessing the value of negative experience 3 Suffering and its place in mind 4 Important errors to avoid 5 Conclusion Notes References

PART III Creativity and agency

11 Creativity and biology

I Introduction II Novelty and creativity III Identifying novelty IV Value V The three types of creativity VI The concept of self-organization VII Understanding self-organization in biology References

12 Attributing creativity

I Creativity as a process concept II Epistemology Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes References

PART IV Explaining creativity

13 Explaining creativity

Introduction Originality and spontaneity as the core aspects of creativity The obscurantist and exceptionalist tradition A strategy to criticize the obscurantist cum exceptionalist schema Creativity as defying any naturalistic explanation Creativity as excluding certain kinds of explanations Creativity as practically inaccessible The ordinary process view: an alternative? Summary on the prospects of explaining creativity Acknowledgements Notes References

14 Talking about more than heads: the embodied, embedded and extended creative mind

Introduction: the path of creation Niche products Embodied creativity Embedded creativity Extended creativity Conclusion: the path of creation (again) Acknowledgments Notes References

15 The social conditions for sustainable technological innovation

Tasmania Middle Stone Age cases Rare, even earlier examples So, what happened? Bottlenecks Population expansion The connection between technological innovation and climate change Immigration Population density Intergroup contact and trade Back to the Middle Stone Age Conclusion Notes References

PART V Creativity in philosophy and mathematics

16 Conceptual creativity in philosophy and logic

Introduction 1 Cantor’s ‘discovery’ of transfinite numbers 2 Frege’s construal of concepts as functions 3 Russell’s use of interpretive analysis in the theory of descriptions 4 Kant’s Copernican revolution 5 Boden’s three conceptions of creativity 6 Reconceiving conceptual creativity in philosophy and logic Notes References

17 Creating heuristics for philosophical creativity

Introduction Heuristics for philosophical creativity: overview Philosophical fridge words Add constraints Taxonomise and colonise Contrastive stress “Turn the knobs” Analogical reasoning Conclusion Notes References

18 The art of doing mathematics

1 Views from history 2 An interlude with Kant 3 Portrait of a mathematician as an artist Acknowledgements Bibliography

PART VI Creativity in art, morality and politics

19 Creativity as an artistic merit

1 The explanandum 2 Deflationism 3 The excellence theory 4 Deflationism deflated 5 The excellence theory extended Notes References

20 Moral imaginativeness, moral creativity and possible futures

1 Examples of moral creativity 2 Some preliminary distinctions 3 What moral imaginativeness is not 4 More things that moral imaginativeness is not 5 Ethics within broken futures 6 Moral creativity in technological futures 7 Types of moral imaginativeness 8 The need for moral imaginativeness about the future Notes References

21 Political creativity: a skeptical view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Notes References

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