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  • Chapter 6 - The Structure of Creative Processes

  • from Part II - Elaborating the Theoretical Model
  • Feiwel Kupferberg
  • Book:
    Constraints and Creativity
    Published online:
    09 July 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 207-250

  • Summary

    This chapter summarizes the four previous dimensions by combining Darwin and Aristotle. Darwin alone cannot explain Darwin mainly because his theory ultimately rested upon Aristotle’s much more fundamental theory of the structure of creative processes which is basically a theory of what makes knowledge-driven change possible. The model operates with three types of knowledge: theoretical (science), productive ( art and rhetoric) and practical (technology and moral order/ethics). These three types of knowledge constitute distinct creativity regimes, constantly confused in the literature. Technology is a practical, adaptive form of knowledge and creates new facts. Art aims at evoking emotions and transforms facts into fiction. Science aims at falsifying previous theories and separates facts from fiction. Only scientists use methodologies such as basic problem-solving strategies. Artists and orators use techniques and engineers use trial and error. Popper got the aim of science right but its core problem-solving strategy wrong.