24.262 | Spring 2004 | Undergraduate
Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
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 …
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.
Learning Resource Types
theaters Lecture Videos
Mural: Celebrating Scientific Advances by African Americans.
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.)