Explaining creativity

Maria Kronfeldner*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

There is a long tradition in the history of philosophy, art or science that regards creativity as extraordinary and in that sense exceptional. Looked at closely, the exceptionalist attitude comes in two varieties: creativity as realized by exceptional people or by exceptional cognitive processes. It is often combined with a second attitude, namely that creativity is a mystery that cannot be explained. It is inexplicable from a naturalistic point of view. Because of the latter, creativity is often regarded as the ‘last frontier’ of a science of the mind. Consequently, computers are denied the potential to be creative; computers might exhibit cognition, but they are not creative, or so the argument goes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCreativity and Philosophy
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages213-229
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781351199780
ISBN (Print)9781138827677
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

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