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Series:   Elements in Philosophy of Mind

Imagination and Creative Thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2022

Amy Kind
Amy Kind
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Claremont McKenna College, California

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This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated questions: What is imagination, and how does it fit into the cognitive architecture of the mind? What is creativity? Is imagination required for creativity? Is creativity required for imagination? Is a person simply born either imaginative or not (and likewise, either creative or not), or are imagination and creativity skills that can be cultivated? And finally, are imagination and creativity uniquely human capacities, or can they be had by nonbiological entities such as AI systems?
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Series: Elements in Philosophy of Mind
Online ISBN: 9781108973335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 28 July 2022

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