ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in subsequent chapters of this book. The book covers many of the central issues in the philosophy of creativity, and tackles them from a variety of illuminating perspectives. It discusses the relationship between creativity and value from a variety of sometimes opposing perspectives. Margaret Boden has in the past influentially defined creativity as the ability to generate ideas or artefacts that are new, surprising and valuable. The book addresses the questions of whether it is possible to explain creativity, and, if so, what kinds of explanations are most promising. It deals with creativity in individual domains. The book concerns creativity in philosophy, logic and mathematics. It discusses creativity in art, morality and politics. The book concludes with Matthew Noah Smith's discussion of political creativity. Smith concludes that one has reason to be sceptical about the existence of political creativity, and even the coherence of its concept.
