Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10797951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Sánchez-Dorado (0000-0002-9513-9915) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Pages | 81-89 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3681 • E-ISSN: 1879-2510 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.05.003 |
| PMID | 37356271 |
| OpenAlex | W4381799199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
This paper revisits the standard definition of scientific creativity in the contemporary philosophical literature. The standard definition of creativity says that there are two necessary, and jointly sufficient, conditions for creativity, novelty and value. This paper proposes to characterize the value condition of creativity in terms of "pursuitworthiness". The notion of pursuitworthiness, adopted from the recent debate on scientific pursuit in philosophy of science, refers to a form of prospective epistemic worth. It indicates that a certain object (such as a scientific hypothesis) is promising or has the potential to be epistemically fertile in the future, if further investigated. To support the claim that creative scientific instances are, qua creative, valuable in the sense of pursuitworthy, three examples of creative hypotheses taken from the history of the geosciences are introduced: MacCulloch's continuity hypothesis in mid-19th-century geology, Baron et al.'s phylogenetic hypothesis in contemporary paleontology, and the widely discussed Anthropocene hypothesis
Anthropocene · Creativity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Novelty · Object (grammar · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Creativity and Culture
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Defining the Anthropocene
Glass microspheres as a potential indicator of the Anthropocene
Epistemic justification in the context of pursuit
Existential risk, creativity & well-adapted science
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness
How Explanatory Reasoning Justifies Pursuit
Indices of Theory Promise
Against Creativity
Waiting for the Anthropocene
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
Creativity Naturalized
The Philosophy of Creativity
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |