Week 1 Blog Post DESMA9
Hi my name is Erik Jensen, and I am a senior philosophy major at UCLA. The topic of this week’s articles has revolved around the separation between creative and linear thinking. In the article Art and Research, Stephen Wilson claims that art and technology are constantly collaborating; making a distinction between technology and science [5]. Some however, are less keen on this difference between schools of thought. David Bohm for instance, in his paper On Creativity, makes the case for the motivations of science to be in line for the same motivations of the abstract definition of creativity [1]. In The Third Culture , Kevin Kelly states that while there is surely an interaction between science and the arts, an entirely new branch has been developed; a third culture that consists of qualities of both cultural arts and science [2]. As a Philosophy student at UCLA, I certainly see these explanations as having merit in our institutions. Philosophy is one of the more diverse maj...