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The Nature of Creativity
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- Instructor
- Prof. Irving Singer
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 video · 1 reading · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.263 The Nature of Creativity, Fall 2005, Prof. Irving Singer — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. ix-58.
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Lecture 3: Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 59-141.
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Lecture 4: Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 143-207.
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Lecture 5: Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. vii-26. The Creative Experience (Part 1)
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Lecture 6: Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 27-61. The Creative Experience (Part 2)
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Lecture 7: Bohm, David. On Creativity. London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004, pp. 62-118. The Creative Experience (Part 1)
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Lecture 8: Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 1-34. The Creative Process (Part 2)
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Lecture 9: Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 35-66. Aesthetic Creativity (Part 1)
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Lecture 10: Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 67-109. Aesthetic Creativity (Part 2)
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Lecture 11: Singer, Irving. “Aesthetic Foundations of Ethics and Religion.” In The Harmony of Nature and Spirit . Baltimore, MD, and London, UK: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Creativity in Practice
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Lecture 12: Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. Creativity in Science and Technology
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Lecture 13: Discussion of Student Drafts of Paper 2 Creativity in Western Philosophy
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