epistemic creativity

📖 Definitions

"the sciences offer distinctive forms of epistemic creativity, too: our creative transformation of the world requires us to self-consciously take up our potential as the creature who ‘creates and posits objects’, imposing conceptual and theoretical order onto the world" (Kidd 2020, 12).

🔗 Relations

• produces: epistemic diversity
• part of: epistemic virtue

📚 References

- Kidd, Ian James. 2021. "Creativity in science and the ‘anthropological turn’ in virtue theory." Euro Jnl Phil Sci 11 (15). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00334-5