There's No Such Thing as Creativity: How Plato and 20th Century Psychology Have Misled Us

by John Baer

Most people (including creativity researchers) act as if they believe that creativity is not simply a useful category or label but a real thing with its own essence (just as Plato would argue that an ideal triangle has an essence that is shared with all actual triangles). Most people (including creativity researchers) also believe that there is a set of general creativity-relevant skills that can be applied to most problems in ways that will lead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009073540
• ISBN13: 9781009073547
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"