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.