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The Nature of Creativity

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2005

Topics

  • Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. ix-58.
  • Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 59-141.
  • Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 143-207.

Readings

  • Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. ISBN: 0742512347.
    Required
  • Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0415336406.
    Required
  • Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
    Required
  • Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.
    Required
  • Lec #: 2 · Topics/Readings: Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. ix-58. ISBN: 0742512347.
    Reading assignment
  • Lec #: 3 · Topics/Readings: Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 59-141. ISBN: 0742512347.
    Reading assignment
  • Lec #: 4 · Topics/Readings: Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 143-207. ISBN: 0742512347.
    Reading assignment
  • Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. vii-26. ISBN: 0415336406.
    Required
  • Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 27-61. ISBN: 0415336406.
    Required
  • Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 62-118. ISBN: 0415336406.
    Required
  • Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 1-34.
    Required
  • Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 35-66.
    Required
  • Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 67-109.
    Required
  • Singer, Irving. “Aesthetic Foundations of Ethics and Religion.” In The Harmony of Nature and Spirit . Baltimore, MD, and London, UK: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801860512.
    Required
  • Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation . London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2001. ISBN: 0571206816.
    Listed reading
  • Sternberg, Robert J., ed. The Nature of Creativity. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 0521338921.
    Listed reading
  • Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. London, UK: Pan Books, 1975. ISBN: 0140191917.
    Listed reading
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaily. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0060928204.
    Listed reading
  • Rosner, Stanley, and Laurence E. Abt, eds. The Creative Experience . New York, NY: Grossman Publishers, 1970. ISBN: 0670246573.
    Listed reading
  • Shaw, Melvin P., and Mark A. Runco, eds. Creativity and Affect . Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN: 1567500129.
    Listed reading
  • Currie, Gregory, and Ian Ravenscroft. Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0198238096.
    Listed reading
  • Fiumara, Gemma Corradi. The Mind’s Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry . Hove, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 1583911545.
    Listed reading
  • Phillips, William, ed. Art and Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Application of Psychoanalytic Theory to the Creative Process. New York, NY: Criterion Books, 1957.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Modell, Arnold H. Imagination and the Meaningful Brain . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 026213425X. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution . London, UK: Electric Book Co., 2001.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Laughter.” In Essay on Comedy. Edited by Wylie Sypher. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
    Listed reading
  • Mullarkey, John, ed. The New Bergson . New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. ISBN: 0719055539.
    Listed reading
  • Damasio, Antonio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain . Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003. ISBN: 0151005575.
    Listed reading
  • Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Picard, R. W. Affective Computing . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262161702. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Boden, Margaret A., ed. Dimensions of Creativity . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 0262023687. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination . Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. ISBN: 0847676501.
    Listed reading
  • Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time . Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 0631190198.
    Listed reading
  • Rawls, John. Interview in The Harvard Gazette , Cambridge, MA, 1981.
    Listed reading
  • Singer, Irving. Meaning in Life: The Creation of Value . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854512.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Meaning in Life: The Harmony of Nature and Spirit . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854261.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Explorations in Love and Sex . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 074251238X.
    Listed reading
  • Plantinga, Carl, and Greg H. Smith, eds. Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0801860113.
    Listed reading
  • Wechsler, Judith, ed. On Aesthetics in Science . Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1988. ISBN: 0817633790.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Churchland, Paul M., and Patricia S. Churchland. On the Contrary: Critical Essays 1987-1997 . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262032546. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Lightman, Alan. A Sense of the Mysterious. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2005. ISBN: 0375423206.
    Listed reading
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