| Lec # | Topics/Readings |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction The Spiritual and the Creative |
| 2 |  Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. ix-58. ISBN: 0742512347. |
| 3 | Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 59-141. ISBN: 0742512347. |
| 4 | Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 143-207. ISBN: 0742512347. |
| 5 | Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. vii-26. ISBN: 0415336406. The Creative Experience (Part 1) |
| 6 | Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 27-61. ISBN: 0415336406. The Creative Experience (Part 2) |
| 7 | Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 62-118. ISBN: 0415336406. 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) |
| 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. ISBN: 0801860512. Creativity in Practice |
| 12 | Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639. Creativity in Science and Technology |
| 13 | Discussion of Student Drafts of Paper 2 Creativity in Western Philosophy |
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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
Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. ISBN: 0742512347.
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.
Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.
Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation. London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2001. ISBN: 0571206816.
Sternberg, Robert J., ed. The Nature of Creativity. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 0521338921.
Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. London, UK: Pan Books, 1975. ISBN: 0140191917.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaily. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0060928204.
Rosner, Stanley, and Laurence E. Abt, eds. The Creative Experience. New York, NY: Grossman Publishers, 1970. ISBN: 0670246573.
Shaw, Melvin P., and Mark A. Runco, eds. Creativity and Affect. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN: 1567500129.
Currie, Gregory, and Ian Ravenscroft. Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0198238096.
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.
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.
Mullarkey, John, ed. The New Bergson. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN: 0719055539.
Damasio, Antonio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003. ISBN: 0151005575.
Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 0743276639.
Picard, R. W. Affective Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262161702.
Boden, Margaret A., ed. Dimensions of Creativity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 0262023687.
Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. ISBN: 0847676501.
Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 0631190198.
Rawls, John. Interview in The Harvard Gazette, Cambridge, MA, 1981.
Singer, Irving. Meaning in Life: The Creation of Value. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854512.
———. Meaning in Life: The Harmony of Nature and Spirit. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854261.
———. Explorations in Love and Sex. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 074251238X.
Plantinga, Carl, and Greg H. Smith, eds. Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0801860113.
Wechsler, Judith, ed. On Aesthetics in Science. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1988. ISBN: 0817633790.
Churchland, Paul M., and Patricia S. Churchland. On the Contrary: Critical Essays 1987-1997. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262032546.
Lightman, Alan. A Sense of the Mysterious. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2005. ISBN: 0375423206.