Modes of creativity
Subtitle: philosophical perspectives
By: Irving Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780262014922
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reversing mistakes about creativity; title: The creative experience; title: The creative process; title: Three myths of artistic creativity; title: Aesthetic creativity; title: Creativity & expression, metaphor, myth; title: The prosaic & the absurd in their creative context; title: Creativity in practice; title: Creativity in science, technology, and mathematics; title: Creativity and reality.