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A Metaphysics of Creativity

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New Waves in Aesthetics

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What is special about art? One of the first answers to this question will involve mention that artworks and artists are creative. Set to one side for the moment what this fact amounts to, just assume that there is some truth to it. This fact is at tension with another fact: aestheticians, at least of the analytic school, have said very little about creativity relative to other special features of art.

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  1. Dustin Stokes
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Sussex, UK

    Kathleen Stock (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy) (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy)

  2. Oberlin College, USA

    Katherine Thomson-Jones (assistant professor) (assistant professor)

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Stokes, D. (2008). A Metaphysics of Creativity. In: Stock, K., Thomson-Jones, K. (eds) New Waves in Aesthetics. New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227453_6

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