Creativity, cognition, and knowledge : an interaction / edited by Terry Dartnall.

ISBN:

9780313012471

9781280422935

Title:

Creativity, cognition, and knowledge : an interaction / edited by Terry Dartnall.

Author:

Dartnall, Terry, 1943-

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Perspectives on cognitive science

Contents:

Staring Emmy straight in the eye, and doing my best not to flinch / Douglas Hofstadter -- Acquisition and productivity in perceptual symbol systems: an account of mundane creativity / Jesse J. Prinz and Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Creativity and the varieties of explication / Donald M. Peterson -- Creativity, relational knowledge, and capacity: why are humans so creative? / Graeme S. Halford and William H. Wilson -- Analogy and creativity: schema induction in a structure-sensitive connectionist model / John E. Hummel and Keith J. Holyoak -- Creativity: a computational modeling approach / Derek Partridge and Jon Rowe -- Creativity and runaway learning / Chris Thornton -- Letter spirit: perception and creation of diverse alphabetic styles / Gary McGraw and Douglas Hofstadter -- Results in the Letter Spirit Project / John Rehling -- Emergence and creativity: five degrees of freedom / Richard McDonough.

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Subject Term:

Creative ability.

Cognitive science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

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Dartnall, Terry, 1943-

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Publication Date:

2002

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

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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.

Author Notes

TERRY DARTNALL is Senior lecturer in Computing and Information Technology at Australia's Griffith University in Nathan, Queensland.

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Dartnall (computing and information technology, Griffith Univ., Brisbane) 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. Ten chapters by psychologists, philosophers, and artificial intelligence researchers describe a variety of approaches to modeling creative processes. One of the book's unusual features is the interaction between Dartnall and his contributors. In the introductory chapter, he first presents his own strongly held views about the nature of creativity then analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each contribution. This commentary continues in a dialog (at the end of each chapter) between Dartnall and the essay's contributor. The format successfully brings out key issues faced in attempts to account for creativity with computational theories. Also the editor of Artificial Intelligence and Creativity (1994) and coeditor (with Janet Wiles) of Perspectives on Cognitive Science (1999), Dartnall has created a volume that is appropriate for libraries serving graduate programs in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind. R. Madigan University of Alaska, Anchorage

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 63
1 Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye-and Doing My Best Not to Flinch	p. 67
2 Acquisition and Productivity in Perceptual Symbol Systems: an Account of Mundane Creativity	p. 105
3 Creativity and the Varieties of Explicitation	p. 139
References	p. 151
4 Creativity, Relational Knowledge, and Capacity: Why Are Humans So Creative?	p. 153
5 Analogy and Creativity: Schema Induction in a Structure-Sensitive Connectionist Model	p. 181
6 Creativity: a Computational Modeling Approach	p. 211
7 Creativity and Runaway Learning	p. 239
8 Letter Spirit: Perception and Creation of Diverse Alphabetic Styles	p. 251
9 Results in the Letter Spirit Project	p. 273
10 Emergence and Creativity: Five Degrees of Freedom	p. 283
References	p. 317
Index	p. 321
About the Editor and the Contributors	p. 335

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