The Philosophy of Creativity
New Essays
Edited by Elliot Samuel Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman
Author Information
Elliot Samuel Paul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University, and is co-founder of The Creativity Post (creativitypost.com), a non-profit web platform that features quality content on creativity, innovation and imagination.
Scott Barry Kaufman is Scientific Director of The Imagination Institute and a researcher in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to co-editing the well-regarded Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Dr. Kaufman is author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined (Basic Books, 2013). He is also co-founder of The Creativity Post.
Contributors:
Roy Baumeister
Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar & Professor of Psychology (Florida State University)
Simon Blackburn
Distinguished Research Professor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Professor of Philosophy (University of Cambridge)
Margaret Boden
Research Professor of Cognitive Science (University of Sussex)
Noël Carroll
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Peter Carruthers
Professor of Philosophy (University of Maryland)
Gregory Currie
Professor of Philosophy (University of Nottingham)
C. Nathan DeWall
Associate Professor of Psychology (University of Kentucky)
Owen Flanagan
James B. Duke Professor and Professor of Neurobiology (Duke University)
Berys Gaut
Professor of Philosophy (University of St. Andrews)
Alan Hájek
Professor of Philosophy (Australian National University)
Scott Barry Kaufman
Scientific Director of The Imagination Institute and research in the Positive Psychology Center (University of Pennsylvania)
Matthew Kieran
Professor of Philosophy and the Arts (University of Leeds)
Bence Nanay
BOF Research Professor (University of Antwerp) & Senior Research Associate (University of Cambridge)
Elliot Samuel Paul
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Christopher Peacocke
Professor of Philosophy (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Picciuto
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy (University of Maryland, College Park)
Dean Keith Simonton
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, (University of California, Davis)
Brandon Schmeichel
Professor of Psychology (Texas A&M University)
Dustin Stokes
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (University of Utah)
