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Lec # Topics/Readings key dates
1

Introduction

The Spiritual and the Creative

2 Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. ix-58.
3 Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 59-141.
4 Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 143-207.
5

Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. vii-26.

The Creative Experience (Part 1)

6

Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 27-61.

The Creative Experience (Part 2)

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Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 62-118.

The Creative Experience (Part 1)

8

Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 1-34.

The Creative Process (Part 2)

9

Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 35-66.

Aesthetic Creativity (Part 1)

Paper 1 due
10

Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 67-109.

Aesthetic Creativity (Part 2)

11

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.

Creativity in Practice

12

Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Creativity in Science and Technology

13

Discussion of Student Drafts of Paper 2

Creativity in Western Philosophy

Paper 2 due