Readings

The following table lists the assigned readings by lecture number. In addition, a partial list of research readings is provided that can be used to aid in the research process for the essays.

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. ISBN: 0742512347.

Buy at Amazon Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0415336406.

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

Buy at Amazon Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.

Lec # Topics/Readings
1

Introduction

The Spiritual and the Creative

2 Buy at Amazon Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. ix-58. ISBN: 0742512347.
3 Buy at Amazon Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 59-141. ISBN: 0742512347.
4 Buy at Amazon Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 143-207. ISBN: 0742512347.
5

Buy at Amazon Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. vii-26. ISBN: 0415336406.

The Creative Experience (Part 1)

6

Buy at Amazon Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 27-61. ISBN: 0415336406.

The Creative Experience (Part 2)

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Buy at Amazon Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 62-118. ISBN: 0415336406.

The Creative Experience (Part 1)

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

The Creative Process (Part 2)

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

Aesthetic Creativity (Part 1)

10

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

Aesthetic Creativity (Part 2)

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Buy at Amazon 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.

Creativity in Practice

12

Buy at Amazon Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.

Creativity in Science and Technology

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Discussion of Student Drafts of Paper 2

Creativity in Western Philosophy

 

Partial List of Research Readings

Buy at Amazon Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation. London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2001. ISBN: 0571206816.

Buy at Amazon Sternberg, Robert J., ed. The Nature of Creativity. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 0521338921.

Buy at Amazon Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. London, UK: Pan Books, 1975. ISBN: 0140191917.

Buy at Amazon Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaily. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0060928204.

Buy at Amazon Rosner, Stanley, and Laurence E. Abt, eds. The Creative Experience. New York, NY: Grossman Publishers, 1970. ISBN: 0670246573.

Buy at Amazon Shaw, Melvin P., and Mark A. Runco, eds. Creativity and Affect. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN: 1567500129.

Buy at Amazon Currie, Gregory, and Ian Ravenscroft. Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0198238096.

Buy at Amazon Fiumara, Gemma Corradi. The Mind's Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry. Hove, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 1583911545.

Phillips, William, ed. Art and Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Application of Psychoanalytic Theory to the Creative Process. New York, NY: Criterion Books, 1957.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Modell, Arnold H. Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 026213425X.

Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. London, UK: Electric Book Co., 2001.

———. "Laughter." In Essay on Comedy. Edited by Wylie Sypher. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.

Buy at Amazon Mullarkey, John, ed. The New Bergson. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN: 0719055539.

Buy at Amazon Damasio, Antonio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003. ISBN: 0151005575.

Buy at Amazon Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Picard, R. W. Affective Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262161702.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Boden, Margaret A., ed. Dimensions of Creativity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 0262023687.

Buy at Amazon Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. ISBN: 0847676501.

Buy at Amazon Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 0631190198.

Rawls, John. Interview in The Harvard Gazette, Cambridge, MA, 1981.

Buy at Amazon Singer, Irving. Meaning in Life: The Creation of Value. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854512.

Buy at Amazon ———. Meaning in Life: The Harmony of Nature and Spirit. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854261.

Buy at Amazon ———. Explorations in Love and Sex. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 074251238X.

Buy at Amazon Plantinga, Carl, and Greg H. Smith, eds. Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0801860113.

Buy at Amazon Wechsler, Judith, ed. On Aesthetics in Science. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1988. ISBN: 0817633790.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Churchland, Paul M., and Patricia S. Churchland. On the Contrary: Critical Essays 1987-1997. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262032546.

Buy at Amazon Lightman, Alan. A Sense of the Mysterious. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2005. ISBN: 0375423206.