The Scientific Enterprise Illustrated: Abduction, Discovery and Creativity

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dc.contributor.authorPoltronieri, Fabrizio Augustoen
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-26T12:03:10Z
dc.date.available2018-04-26T12:03:10Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-12
dc.description.abstractThe idea of the genius, the mad scientist, the enlightened person – oftentimes displaced from society – who has the most interesting and creative ideas from bolts of lightning of genius is consolidated in popular culture, whether in films, comics or in science fiction books. In many cases found in popular culture, emphasis is given to the idea of the hero with razor-sharp intelligence, always accompanied by a high level of creativity that defies any kind of logical pattern or law, accentuating a feature of popular beliefs: That creativity is a wild, lawless territory that few professions or people, including artists in general and scientists, can fathom out. This is the point this text addresses: Is creativity something that really evades logic? Is there something that characterizes, in logical terms, what we call creative genius? To shed some light on these questions, we resort to some ideas from the broad theoretical framework of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), focusing on a specific type of logical reasoning, called abductive, as the concept of creativity for Pierce is associated with it.en
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dc.identifier.citationPoltronieri, F. (2018) The Scientific Enterprise Illustrated: Abduction, Discovery and Creativity. In: Görgen, A., Nunez, GA., Fangerau, H. (Eds.) Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishingen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90677-5
dc.identifier.issn9783319906768
dc.identifier.issn9783319906775
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/16096
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.researchgroupInstitute of Creative Technologiesen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI)en
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)en
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Art and Designen
dc.subjectCreativityen
dc.subjectCharles Sanders Peirceen
dc.titleThe Scientific Enterprise Illustrated: Abduction, Discovery and Creativityen
dc.typeBook chapteren

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