| Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge: An Interaction Contributor(s): Dartnall, Terry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0275976807 ISBN-13: 9780275976804 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: This collection weitten by leading figures in cognitive science includes their lively debates with Dartnall about his call for a new epistemology, an alternative to the standard representational story in cognitive science. Dartnall aims to show that new epistemology is already with us in some leading-edge models of human creativity. Such an epistemology steers a middle road between the representationism of classical cognitive science and a radical anti-representationism that denies the existence or importance of representations. Dartnall, who debates contributors at each chapter's end, believes that creativity inheres--not only in "big ticket" items such as plays, poems, or sonatas--but in our ability to produce cognitive content at all, so that representations are the "creative products" of our knowledge, rather than its passive carriers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Psychology | Creative Ability |
| Dewey: 153.35 |
| LCCN: 2002510034 |
| Series: Perspectives on Cognitive Science |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.08" W x 9.54" (1.51 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection weitten by leading figures in cognitive science includes their lively debates with Dartnall about his call for a new epistemology, an alternative to the standard representational story in cognitive science. Dartnall aims to show that new epistemology is already with us in some leading-edge models of human creativity. Such an epistemology steers a middle road between the representationism of classical cognitive science and a radical anti-representationism that denies the existence or importance of representations. Dartnall, who debates contributors at each chapter's end, believes that creativity inheres--not only in big ticket items such as plays, poems, or sonatas--but in our ability to produce cognitive content at all, so that representations are the creative products of our knowledge, rather than its passive carriers. |