The idea of creativity

370 Pages·2009·1.47 MB·English

by  Bardsley, Karen, Krausz, Michael, Dutton, Denis

The Idea of Creativity
Philosophy of
History and Culture
Editor
Michael Krausz
Bryn Mawr College
Advisory Board
Annette Baier (University of Pittsburgh)
Purushottama Bilimoria (Deakin University, Australia)
Cora Diamond (University of Virginia)
William Dray (University of Ottawa)
Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research)
Clifford Geertz† (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Peter Hacker (St. John’s College, Oxford)
Rom Harré (Linacre College, Oxford)
Bernard Harrison (University of Sussex)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Leon Pompa (University of Birmingham)
Joseph Raz (Balliol College, Oxford)
Amélie Rorty (Harvard University)
VOLUME 28
The Idea of Creativity
Edited by
Michael Krausz, Denis Dutton and Karen Bardsley
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2009
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The idea of creativity / edited by Michael Krausz, Denis Dutton, and Karen Bardsley.
p. cm. -- (Philosophy of history and culture, ISSN 0922-6001 ; v. 28)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-90-04-17444-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Creative ability. I. Krausz, Michael. II.
Dutton, Denis. III. Bardsley, Karen. IV. Title. V. Series.
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ISSN 0922-6001
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ....................................................................... ix
Contributors ................................................................................ xi
Introduction ............................................................................... xvii
Michael Krausz
PART ONE
EXPLAINING CREATIVITY:
PERSONS, PROCESSES, AND PRODUCTS
Chapter One Criteria of Creativity ......................................... 3
Carl R. Hausman
Chapter Two Creative Product and Creative Process in
Science and Art ....................................................................... 17
Larry Briskman
Chapter Three The Rationality of Creativity ......................... 43
I. C. Jarvie
Chapter Four Creativity as a Darwinian Phenomenon:
The Blind-Variation and Selective-Retention Model ............. 63
Dean Keith Simonton
Chapter Five Creativity and Skill ............................................. 83
Berys Gaut
Chapter Six On Bringing a Work into Existence ..................... 105
Peter Lamarque
vi contents
PART TWO
CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION, AND SELF
Chapter Seven Poincaré’s ‘Delicate Sieve’: On Creativity
and Constraints in the Arts ..................................................... 129
Paisley Livingston
Chapter Eight The Creative Imagination ................................ 147
Michael Polanyi
Chapter Nine Every Horse has a Mouth:
A Personal Poetics ................................................................... 165
F. E. Sparshott
Chapter Ten Creativity and Self-Transformation ................... 191
Michael Krausz
Chapter Eleven On the Dialectical Phenomenology of
Creativity ............................................................................... 205
Albert Hofstadter
Chapter Twelve The Artistic Relevance of Creativity ............. 213
David Davies
PART THREE
FORMS AND DOMAINS OF CREATIVITY
Chapter Thirteen Creativity: How Does it Work? ................... 237
Margaret Boden
Chapter Fourteen The Three Domains of Creativity ............. 251
Arthur Koestler
Chapter Fifteen Creativity in Science ...................................... 267
Rom Harré
contents vii
Chapter Sixteen Creative Interpretation of Literary Texts ..... 293
Thomas Leddy
Chapter Seventeen Creativity in Philosophy and the Arts ....... 313
John M. Carvalho
Index ........................................................................................... 331

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors gratefully acknowledge Margaret Boden, John M. Carv-
alho, David Davies, Berys Gaut, Michael Krausz, Peter Lamarque,
Tomas Leddy, Paisley Livingston, and Dean Keith Simonton, who wrote
new works especially for this volume.
Eight of the essays appeared in an earlier volume, The Idea of Cre-
ativity in Science and Art, edited by Denis Dutton and Michael Krausz,
published in 1981 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague (series
editor, Harold Durfee). Those are the works by Larry Briskman, Rom
Harré, Carl Hausman, Albert Hofstadter, I. C. Jarvie, Arthur Koestler,
Michael Polanyi, and F. E. Sparshott. We thank Harold Durfee who, in
the name of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, granted the rights to reprint
the Jarvie, Hofstadter, and Harré works. In addition, the following hold-
ers graciously granted copyright permissions as follows:
Briskman’s work originally appeared as “Creative Product and Cre-
ative Process in Science and Art,” Inquiry 23 (1980), 83–106. We wish
to thank Taylor & Francis (UK) Journals for permission to reprint the
work in this volume. Hausman’s work originally appeared as “Criteria
of Creativity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 (1979) 237–249.
We extend thanks to Blackwell Publishing Company for permission
to reprint the work. Koestler’s work originally appeared as “Three
Domains of Creativity,” in Challenges of Humanistic Psychology, edited by
F. T. Bugental (McGraw Hill, 1967), 30–40. No copyright is currently
in force for this work. We express our appreciation to John Polanyi for
his permission to reprint Michael Polanyi, “The Creative Imagination,”
which originally appeared in Chemical and Engineering News 44 (1966):
85–93. Sparshott’s work originally appeared as, “Every Horse Has a
Mouth: A Personal Poetics,” Philosophy and Literature 1 (1977). We thank
Johns Hopkins University Press for the permission to reprint the work
in this volume.
Finally, we could not have produced the volume without the tireless
and expert assistance of Elizabeth D. Boepple. The editors and authors
are extremely grateful to her.