Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge

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Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge An Interaction

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Terry Dartnall

Book Code: C7680

ISBN: 0-275-97680-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97680-4

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352 pages, figures, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Perspectives on Cognitive Science

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Dartnall is interested in creativity not only as an intriguing phenomenon but also because he believes that an account of creativity is the ultimate test for cognitive science. This book examines creativity from this dual perspective....Dartnall has created a volume that is appropriate for libraries serving graduate programs in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind.
—Choice February 2003

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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Terry Dartnall
Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye--and Doing My Best Not to Flinch by Douglas Hofstadter
Acquisition and Productivity in Perceptual Symbol Sytems: An Account of Mundane Creativity by Jesse J. Prinz and Lawrence W. Barsalou
Creativity and the Varieties of Explicitation by Donald M. Peterson
Creativity, Relational Knowledge, and Capacity: Why Are Humans So Creative? By Graeme S. Halford and William H. Wilson
Analogy and Creativity: Schema Induction in a Structure-Sensitive Connectionist Model by John E. Hummel and Keith J. Holyoak
Creativity: A Computational Modelling Approach by Derek Partridge and Jon Rowe
Creativity and Runaway Learning by Chris Thornton
Letter Spirit: Perception and Creation of Diverse Alphabetic Styles by Gary McGraw and Doug Hofstadter
Recent Results in the Letter Spirit Project by John Rehling
Emergence and Creativity: Five Degrees of Freedom by Richard McDonough
Index


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