Title: Modes of creativity : philosophical perspectives /
Authors: Singer, Irving
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Philosophy; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Abstract: In this philosophical exploration of creativity, the author describes the many different types of creativity and their varied manifestations within and across all the arts and sciences. His approach is pluralistic rather than abstract or dogmatic. His reflections amplify recent discoveries in cognitive science and neurobiology by aligning them with the aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological framework of experience and behavior that characterizes the human quest for meaning.
Contents: Prologue : reversing mistakes about creativity -- The creative experience -- The creative process -- Three myths of artistic creativity -- Aesthetic creativity -- Creativity in expression, metaphor, myth -- The prosaic and the absurd in their creative context -- Creativity in practice -- Creativity in science, technology, and mathematics -- Creativity and reality.