Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge: An Interaction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780275976811)

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: Terry Dartnall
ISBN-10: 0275976815
ISBN-13: 9780275976811
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2002
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.10w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 1061