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This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated questions: What is imagination, and how does it fit into the cognitive architecture of the mind? What is creativity? Is imagination required for creativity? Is creativity required for imagination? Is a person simply born either imaginative or not (and likewise, either creative or not), or are imagination and creativity skills that can be cultivated? And finally, are imagination and creativity uniquely human capacities, or can they be had by nonbiological entities such as AI systems?

Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. What is imagination?; 3. What is Creativity?; 4. How are imagination and creativity related?; 5. A Case Study: Imagination and Creativity in Machines; 6. Conclusion.

Imagination and Creative Thinking

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 7/28/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781108977227
      978-1108977227
      ISBN-10 1108977227
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      Philosophy of mind

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      Book Synopsis
      This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated questions: What is imagination, and how does it fit into the cognitive architecture of the mind? What is creativity? Is imagination required for creativity? Is creativity required for imagination? Is a person simply born either imaginative or not (and likewise, either creative or not), or are imagination and creativity skills that can be cultivated? And finally, are imagination and creativity uniquely human capacities, or can they be had by nonbiological entities such as AI systems?

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction; 2. What is imagination?; 3. What is Creativity?; 4. How are imagination and creativity related?; 5. A Case Study: Imagination and Creativity in Machines; 6. Conclusion.

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