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Creativity
Ethics and Excellence in Science
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2008
Summary
Creativity explores the moral dimensions of creativity in science in a systematic and comprehensive way. A work of applied philosophy, professional ethics, and philosophy of science, the book argues that scientific creativity often constitutes moral creativity_the production of new and morally variable outcomes. At the same time, creative ambitions have a dark side that can lead to professional misconduct and harmful effects on society and the environment. In this work, creativity is generally defined as the development of new and valuable outcomes such as significant truths, illuminating explanations, or useful technological products. Virtue and accompanying ideals are emphasized as a moral framework. Intellectual virtues, such as love of truth, intellectual honesty, and intellectual courage, are themselves moral virtues. Further moral topics concerning scientific creativity are explored: serendipity and its connection with moral luck, the paradoxes of moral motivation, scientific misconduct arising from unbalanced creative ambitions, forbidden knowledge, creative teaching and leadership in science, and the role of scientific creativity in good lives.
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Edition
1/2008
Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2053-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3216-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
136
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Chapter 01. Creativity and Ethics No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 02. What Is Creativity? No access Pages 9 - 24
Chapter 03. Intellectual Virtues No access Pages 25 - 38
Chapter 04. Paradoxes of Motivation No access Pages 39 - 50
Chapter 05. Serendipity No access Pages 51 - 60
Chapter 06. Scientific Misconduct No access Pages 61 - 74
Chapter 07. Forbidden Knowledge No access Pages 75 - 84
