Scientific progress as a function of creativity: the ‘distributive’ approach. May 2024. abstract bibtex This paper aims to show how creativity, interpreted as a distributive process, contributes to the progress of a scientific discipline D. First, we show that two mainstream approaches to scientific progress (qua advancement of knowledge and qua problem-solving) both imply the interaction with an epistemic environment. Second, we interpret creativity as a distributed property over a solution to a problem (or an idea, proof, etc.) and multiple epistemic environments. Progress of D is both constrained and boosted by distributed creativity of D. In this functional interpretation, creativity operates as a “feedback loop” (both positive or negative) within the dynamics of a scientific discipline D. The conclusion is that, given the distributive nature of progress and creativity, the latter plays a functional role in the dynamics of the former.
@unpublished{ScientificProgressFunction2023,
title = {Scientific progress as a function of creativity: the ‘distributive’ approach},
copyright = {All rights reserved},
abstract = {This paper aims to show how creativity, interpreted as a distributive process, contributes to the progress of a scientific discipline D. First, we show that two mainstream approaches to scientific progress (qua advancement of knowledge and qua problem-solving) both imply the interaction with an epistemic environment. Second, we interpret creativity as a distributed property over a solution to a problem (or an idea, proof, etc.) and multiple epistemic environments. Progress of D is both constrained and boosted by distributed creativity of D. In this functional interpretation, creativity operates as a “feedback loop” (both positive or negative) within the dynamics of a scientific discipline D. The conclusion is that, given the distributive nature of progress and creativity, the latter plays a functional role in the dynamics of the former.},
language = {1. Philosophy of science},
month = may,
year = {2024},
}
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