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In his article, “Creative Product and Creative Process in Science and Art,” Larry Briskman argues that any theory of creativity must hold creative products as logically prior to creative processes. His general idea is that one cannot identify what a creative process is unless one begins with its results. The argumentative burden, then, falls on answering the question, What is a creative product?
This essay is a version of one presented to the Eastern Division of the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., December, 1987. It is dedicated to Constance Costigan and to the memory of my father, Laszlo Krausz (1903–1979).
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Krausz, M. (1981). Creating and Becoming. In: Dutton, D., Krausz, M. (eds) The Concept of Creativity in Science and Art. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5083-2_9
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