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The Complexity of Creativity

  • Åke E. Andersson
  • Nils-Eric Sahlin
Book

Part of the Synthese Library book series (SYLI, volume 258)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. The Constraints of Knowledge
    Margaret A. Boden
    Pages 1-4
  3. The Gist of Creativity
    Ingar Brinck
    Pages 5-16
  4. Creativity and the Evolutionary Viewpoint
    Sören Halldén
    Pages 17-22
  5. The Internal Breeding-Ground of Creativity
    Gudmund Smith
    Pages 23-33
  6. Process and Creation
    Jason W. Brown
    Pages 35-50
  7. A Fourth Grade Experience
    Donald G. Saari
    Pages 51-58
  8. Value-Change and Creativity
    N.-E. Sahlin
    Pages 59-66
  9. On Creativity in Reasoning
    Jaakko Hintikka
    Pages 67-78
  10. Toward a Mathematical Modeling of Creativity
    Donald G. Saari, Anneli L. Saari
    Pages 79-103
  11. Creativity. Some Historical Footnotes from Science and Art
    Anders Karlqvist
    Pages 105-114
  12. The World, The Mind and Mathematics
    John L. Casti
    Pages 115-138
  13. Creativity, Complexity and Qualitative Economic Development
    Åke E. Andersson
    Pages 139-151

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

complexity creativity evolution mathematics modeling

Editors and affiliations

  • Åke E. Andersson
    • 1
  • Nils-Eric Sahlin
    • 2
    • 3
  1. 1.Institute for Futures StudiesStockholmSweden
  2. 2.Department of PhilosophyGothenburg UniversitySweden
  3. 3.Lund UniversitySweden

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8788-4
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-90-481-4778-6
  • Online ISBN 978-94-015-8788-4
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