Table Of ContentThe Ethics of Creativity
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The Ethics of Creativity
Editedby
Seana Moran
ClarkUniversity,USA
David Cropley
UniversityofSouthAustralia,Australia
James C. Kaufman
UniversityofConnecticut,USA
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables ix
Acknowledgments x
NotesonContributors xi
Introduction:TheCrossroadsofCreativityandEthics 1
SeanaMoran
Part I WhatAretheMoralMentalMechanisms
InvolvedinCreativity,andHowDoTheyDevelop?
1 TheDevelopmentofMoralImagination 25
DarciaNarvaezandKellenMrkva
2 MoralCraftsmanship 46
MarkCoeckelbergh
3 CreativityinEthicalReasoning 62
RobertJ.Sternberg
4 MoralCreativityandCreativeMorality 75
QinLiandMihalyCsikszentmihalyi
5 CreativeArtistsandCreativeScientists:
WhereDoestheBuckStop? 92
JamesNoonanandHowardGardner
Part II When,How,andWhyDoesCreativityLead
toPositiveorNegativeEthicalImpacts—orBoth?
6 ACreativeAlchemy 119
RuthRichards
7 LicensetoSteal:HowtheCreativeIdentity
EntitlesDishonesty 137
LynneC.Vincent andJackA.Goncalo
8 Engineering,Ethics,andCreativity:
N’ertheTwainShallMeet? 152
DavidH.Cropley
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9 ConstructionorDemolition:DoesProblemConstruction
InfluencetheEthicalityofCreativity? 170
DanielJ.Harris,RoniReiter-Palmon,andGinaScottLigon
10 IntelligentDecision-MakingTechnologyand
ComputationalEthics 187
AnthonyFinn
Part III WhatRoleDoesEthicsPlayinSupporting
orThwartingCreativity?
11 CreativeTransformationsofEthicalChallenges 205
VeraJohn-SteinerandReubenHersh
12 TheHackerEthicforGiftedScientists 221
KirsiTirri
13 TheDialogicWitness:NewMetaphorsofCreative
andEthicalWorkinDocumentaryPhotography 232
CharlotteDixonandHelenHaste
14 NeglectofCreativityinEducation:AMoralIssue 250
ArthurCropley
15 TheEthicalDemandsMadeonLeadersofCreativeEfforts 265
MichaelMumford,DavidR.Peterson,Alexandra
E.MacDougall,ThomasA.Zeni, andSeanaMoran
Part IV Horizons
AnEthicsofPossibility 281
SeanaMoran
Summary:CreativityandEthics—TwoGoldenEggs 299
DavidCropley,JamesC.Kaufman,MichelleMurphy,and
SeanaMoran
Index 308
Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 Thesafetyethicversustheengagementethic 33
5.1 Extendingthesystemsviewofcreativitytoconsider
post-creativedevelopments(PCDs) 95
5.2 Processofrespondingtopost-creativedevelopments 111
8.1 Stagesinthedesignprocess 157
8.2 Thetheoreticalandavailabledesignspaces 159
8.3 Stage-specificconstraintsonengineeringdesign 160
8.4 Stage-independentconstraintsandtheoriesofethics 163
8.5 Sidesteppingconstraints—reformulatingtheproblem 166
9.1 Comparisonofdestructiveproblemconstructionsand
markersforaggressionbetweenleadersofideological
organizations 182
13.1 Modelofthedialogicwitness 242
15.1 Sensemakingmodelofethicaldecision-making 267
Tables
1.1 Basicmindsetsintriuneethicstheory 30
1.2 Characteristicsofculturalcreatives 40
4.1 Amodelofdimensionsofmoralityappliedtothe
conductofcreativeindividuals 78
5.1 Creativeindividualsfacingpost-creativedevelopments
alongtwodimensions 97
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