1st Edition
The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon Explorations in Cognitive History
Prologue 1. The language of cognitive history 2. Renaissance creativity: a cognitive prehistory 3. The cognitive style of an early humanist 4. A shared memory revolution 5. Art-of-painting as a Renaissance artifact 6 .Utilitarianism of an unforgiving kind 7. Refute-and-replace: rejecting antiquity 8. ‘Galileo modern’ as a cognitive style 9. Epilogue Glossary of terms
Biography
Subrata Dasgupta is Professor Emeritus in the School of Computing & Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, where from 1993 to 2018 he held the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair and from 1999 to 2013 served as director of the Institute of Cognitive Science. He has authored numerous works on the cognitive, historical, and computational aspects of creative phenomena, especially in science, technology, intellectual movements, and art including, most recently, A Cognitive Historical Approach to Creativity (Routledge, 2019).
