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Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge An Interaction
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Book Code: B7681
ISBN: 0-275-97681-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97681-1
352 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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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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