The idea of creativity / Ed. by Michael Krausz, Denis Dutton and Karen Bardsley.

Includes bibliogr. references and index.

Introduction / Michael Krausz ; Explaining creativity : persons, processes, and products ; Criteria of creativity / Carl R. Hausman ; Creative product and creative process in science and art / Larry Briskman ; The rationality of creativity / I.C. Jarvie ; Creativity as a Darwinian phenomenon : the blind-variation and selective-retention model / Dean Keith Simonton ; Creativity and skill / Berys Gaut ; On bringing a work into existence / Peter Lamarque ; Creativity, imagination, and self ; Poincaré's 'delicate sieve' : on creativity and constraints in the arts / Paisley Livingston ; The creative imagination / Michael Polanyi ; Every horse has a mouth : a personal poetics / F.E. Sparshott ; Creativity and self-transformation / Michael Krausz ; On the dialectical phenomenology of creativity / Albert Hofstadter ; The artistic relevance of creativity / David Davies ; Forms and domains of creativity ; Creativity : how does it work? / Margaret Boden ; The three domains of creativity / Arthur Koestler ; Creativity in science / Rom Harré ; Creative interpretation of literary texts / Thomas Leddy ;- Creativity in philosophy and the arts / John M. Carvalho.