Margaret A. Boden Books

To understand creativity, we must first understand the conceptual groundwork that has defined it throughout history. In *Dimensions of Creativity*, we revisit the philosophical lineage of imagination—from Aristotle’s notion of ‘phantasia’ to Kant’s synthesis of perception and understanding, to roman...

From Dimensions Of Creativity

From the psychological viewpoint, creativity is the product of cognitive operations such as association, insight, and problem restructuring. The psychologists represented in this volume explore how minds move from conventional to novel solutions—how sudden insights arise, why associative richness ma...

From Dimensions Of Creativity

The story of creativity begins long before cognitive science. For centuries, philosophers and artists have struggled to describe its origins. The Greeks associated creativity with divine inspiration—the muses whispering novelty into the poet’s ear. Romantic thinkers later came to see it as an irrati...

From The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms

At the heart of my theory lies the idea that creativity can be understood as the exploration and transformation of conceptual spaces. When we think creatively, we are not simply generating random associations. We operate within a space defined by rules, representations, and relationships—a cognitive...

From The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms