The Complexity of Creativity
This is a volume on the concepts, theories, models and social consequences of creativity. It contains articles by well-known cognitive scientists, economists, mathematicians, philosophers and psychologists.
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University ofGroningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
VOLUME258
THE COMPLEXITY OF CREATIVITY Edited by
AKE E. ANDERSSON Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
and
NILS-ERIC SAHLIN Department of Philosophy, Gothenburg University and Lund University, Sweden
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-4778-6
ISBN 978-94-015-8788-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8788-4
Printed on acid-free paper
AlI Rights Reserved © 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1997 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.
Table of Contents Editor's preamble
vii
The constraints of knowledge Margaret A. Boden The gist of creativity Ingar Brinck
5
Creativity and the evolutionary viewpoint Soren Hallden
17
The internal breeding-ground of creativity Gudmund Smith
23
Process and creation Jason W. Brown
35
A fourth grade experience Donald G. Saari
51
Value-change and creativity N.-E. Sahlin
59
On creativity in reasoning Jaakko Hintikka
67
Toward a mathematical modeling of creativity Donald G. Saari and Anneli L. Saari
79
Creativity, -Some historical footnotes from science and art Anders Karlqvist
105
The world, the mind and mathematics John L. Casti
115
Creativity, complexity and qualitative economic development Ake E. Andersson
139
EDITORS' PREAMBLE
This is a book on the concepts, theories, models and social consequences of creativity. The articles are the outcome of a workshop on creativity held in Venice in October 1994. The workshop was organized by the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies as part of the larger project The Cognitive Revolution. The role of textbooks in the teaching of creativity was discussed at the workshop. One of the participants, Gudmund Smith, asserted that not reading textbooks might be the most creativity enhancing technology in education. However, this is not a textbook, nor is it a set of simple instructions of how to become creative, but we hope that this volume contains enough of thought provoking material to spark off a creative process. A.E.A. N.-E. S. Stockholm, June 1996
MARGARET A. BODEN
THE CONSTRAINTS OF KNOWLEDGE
People sometimes speak as though knowledge has little to do with creativity, or even prevents it. This dismissive attitude toward the role of cognition in creativity takes two main forms. On the
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