Thesis
On artistic creativity and free action
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102232
Abstract
This project seeks to incorporate the debate on creativity into the debate on free agency. Artistic creativity is not exactly well-represented in the literature on the philosophy of action, yet it should be an essential component. First, I look into creativity and derive certain conditions that it shows that a theory of free agency would need to adhere to. The conditions are: the control condition, the uniqueness condition, and the value condition. From there, the discussion turns to how three explanation theories of action (non-causal, agent-causal, and event-causal) meet those conditions, and concludes with how three theories of free will (libertarianism, compatibilism, and hard incompatibilism) meet those conditions. Even though I hope to show that agent-causal libertarianism meets those conditions, I only seek to do exactly that. The aim is to show that, in the least, there is a one-to-one relationship between theories of creativity and theories of free action. Or, at the very least, there can be a link in discussing the two topics.
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Details
- Title
- On artistic creativity and free action
- Creators
- George Aristotelis Kassimis
- Contributors
- Joseph Keim Campbell (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525091201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis