This is a volume on the concepts, theories, models and social consequences of creativity. It contains articles by well-known cognitive scientists, economists, mathematicians, philosophers and psychologists.

Inhalt

Editors' Preamble. The Constraints of Knowledge; M.A. Boden. The Gist of Creativity; I. Brinck. Creativity and the Evolutionary Viewpoint; S. Halldén. The Internal Breeding-Ground of Creativity; G. Smith. Process and Creation; J.W. Brown. A Fourth Grade Experience; D.G. Sarri. Value-Change and Creativity; N.-E. Sahlin. On Creativity in Reasoning; J. Hintikka. Toward a Mathematical Modeling of Creativity; D.G. Saari, A.L. Saari. Creativity - Some Historical Footnotes from Science and Art; A. Karlqvist. The World, the Mind and Mathematics; J.L. Casti. Creativity, Complexity and Qualitative Economic Development; Å.E. Andersson.