Meetings of the Creative Agents Group

• Meeting 1: Metaphor and Creativity. Led by Michael Zenzen. Reading: Ricoeur, Paul (1981) "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling." In Johnson, M., ed., Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), 228-247.
• Meeting 2: Affect, Cognition, The Body, and Creativity. Led by Ellen Esrock. Reading: Damasio, Antonio R. (1994) DesCartes' Error (New York, NY: Putnam).
• Meeting 3: The Torrance Tests of Creativity. Led by E. Bringsjord and Kathy Voegtle. Reading: the tests themselves were presented and discussed, and were administered in part.
• Meeting 4: Point of View and Literary Creativity. Led by Selmer Bringsjord. Reading: "Why Henrik Ibsen Threatens Computer Generated Literature"
• Meeting 5: Evolutionary Computation, Creativity, and the MONA-LISA System. Led by Ron Noel. Reading: references provided and discussed at the meeting.
• Meeting 6: Autism and Creativity. Led by Jim Fahey. Reading:
• Meeting 7: Imagination and Creativity. Led by Michael Zenzen. Reading: Johnson, M. (1987) "Toward a Theory of Imagination." In Johnson, M. The Body in the Mind (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press).
• Meeting 8 is scheduled for 9/5 at 9am, Sage 3205.