Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge

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Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge An Interaction

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Terry Dartnall

Book Code: B7681

ISBN: 0-275-97681-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97681-1

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352 pages, figures, tables

Praeger Paperback

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)

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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
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