Celebrating Scientific Advances by African Americans: The Negro's Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of America: Science by Millard Owen Sheets, 1939. (Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Irving Singer
MIT Course Number
24.262
As Taught In
Spring 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly dependent on affective as well as cognitive elements in human nature. We study feeling and imagination in relation to principles of idealization, consummation, and the aesthetic values that give meaning to science and technology as well as literature and the other arts. Readings in philosophy, psychology, and literature are part of the course.