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The Urgent Need of an Ecology of Human Creativity

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Authors:
  1. Lorenzo Magnani

    1. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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  • Offers an unconventional approach to protecting human creativity
  • Promotes the ecology of human creativity
  • Presents discoverability as the condition of enhancing human creativity

Part of the book series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning (LARI, volume 26)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Discoverability Explained

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 1-25

  3. Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 27-52

  4. Eco-Cognitive Openness and Eco-Cognitive Closure

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 53-78

  5. Jeopardizing Discoverability

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 79-103

  6. The Future of Eco-Cognitive Settings

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 105-126

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 127-156
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About this book

The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an "eco-cognitive" perspective. Advocating the need of an integral ecology and leveraging the important concept of abduction, it demonstrates that an ecology of human creativity should have priority over other needs, i.e that the first ecological duty is to protect and sustain discoverability. Enhancing discoverability will protect human creativity, and it is exactly human creativity, a form of innovative abductive cognition, that can promote the implementation of the other kinds of ecology. The author guides readers through a comprehensive discussion on the concept of discoverability, eco-cognitive situatedness, and eco-cognitive openness and closure alike. By describing some key real-world examples, he highlights the main challenges that are currently posed to human creativity and epistemic integrity. He also describes future eco-cognitive settings, discussing the problem of overcomputationalism and suggesting a reinterpretation of the role of human knowledge.

Overall, this book fills an important gap in the literature on the nexus abduction – creativity – discovery, offering a source of inspiration to philosophers, epistemologists, and cognitive scientists. Yet, it also addresses researchers in other disciplines interested in the problems of scientific discovery and epistemic integrity of research.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Lorenzo Magnani

About the author

Lorenzo Magnani, philosopher, epistemologist, and cognitive scientist, is a professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pavia, Italy, and the director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. Authors and editor of many books and proceedings and of about 400 publications in 2015 has been appointed member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences (AIPS). He is the editor of the Book Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE), Springer, Switzerland.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discoverability

  • Book Subtitle: The Urgent Need of an Ecology of Human Creativity

  • Authors: Lorenzo Magnani

  • Series Title: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93329-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93328-9Published: 21 May 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93331-9Published: 21 May 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93329-6Published: 20 May 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9120

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9139

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 156

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy, general

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