The Complexity of Creativity

by Ake E. Andersson (Editor), N.E. Sahlin (Editor)

Overview

This is a volume on the concepts, theories, models and social consequences of creativity. It contains articles by well-known cognitive scientists, economists, mathematicians, philosophers and psychologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792343462
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/30/1996
Series:	Synthese Library , #258
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Editors' Preamble. The Constraints of Knowledge; M.A. Boden. The Gist of Creativity; I. Brinck. Creativity and the Evolutionary Viewpoint; S. Halldén. The Internal Breeding-Ground of Creativity; G. Smith. Process and Creation; J.W. Brown. A Fourth Grade Experience; D.G. Sarri. Value-Change and Creativity; N.-E. Sahlin. On Creativity in Reasoning; J. Hintikka. Toward a Mathematical Modeling of Creativity; D.G. Saari, A.L. Saari. Creativity - Some Historical Footnotes from Science and Art; A. Karlqvist. The World, the Mind and Mathematics; J.L. Casti. Creativity, Complexity and Qualitative Economic Development; Å.E. Andersson.

Editorial Reviews

Birthed from a workshop (Swedish Institute for Future Studies, Venice, 1994), at which one of the contributors "...asserted that not reading textbooks might be the most creativity enhancing technology in education," he and 11 cohorts paradoxically proceed to write essays that may well find use in college seminars in cognitive psychology, education, and philosophy for their delving into the concepts, theories, models, and social consequences of creativity. Factors teased apart by explorers of the elusive ecology of both minor and major league creativity include: motivation, novelty, intelligence, metaphorical thinking, and conducive environments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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