{"id":14605,"date":"2026-01-19T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/?page_id=14605"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:59:53","slug":"14605-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/14605-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Humbert-Droz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Steve Humbert-Droz: Smart Creativity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday May 5 2026 @11:30 (CET)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/UNED+-+Humanidades\/@40.4366067,-3.7379162,17z\/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0xd4228238189d7b7:0x62044c79ae77dfac!4m6!3m5!1s0xd42295f507d8465:0xc8bff2c2c262c868!8m2!3d40.4366067!4d-3.7353359!16s%2Fg%2F11d_d4qny9?entry=ttu\">Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/contact\/\">online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract<\/em><br>In philosophy, creativity, and especially creative thinking (as opposed to creative achievements), is often associated with imagination. Even scholars who deny a substantive connection between creativity and imagination typically take this association as their starting point. In psychology, by contrast, creative thinking is more frequently associated with intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this talk, I show that creative thinking can be better understood through its relationship with intelligence than with imagination. I argue that the dominant imaginative view \u2013 according to which a minimal form of imagination is a necessary component of creativity (Carruthers 2002, 2006; Gaut 2003; Hills &amp; Bird 2019; Stokes 2014) \u2013 fails to provide a non-trivial account of creative thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I then defend a competing but structurally similar hypothesis, which I call <em>smart creativity:<\/em> some relevant broad abilities of intelligence (associated with expertise) are necessary components of creative thinking and constitute a major explanatory factor of it (Silvia 2015; Stevenson et al. 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This view sheds light on the specific kind of praise we attribute to individuals who go \u201coutside the box\u201d \u2013 that is, those who perform creative achievements through creative thinking, as opposed to individuals whose creative achievements result from other processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Bio<\/em><br><br>Steve Humbert-Droz is a postdoctoral fellow at Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid with a grant from the Swiss Confederation. His current project concerns the relationship between imagination and intelligence and the taxonomy of these concepts. His other interests are aesthetics, emotions, and imaginative states \u2013 such as mental imagery or imaginative immersion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Humbert-Droz: Smart Creativity Tuesday May 5 2026 @11:30 (CET)Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED\u00a0&amp;\u00a0online AbstractIn philosophy, creativity, and especially creative thinking (as opposed to creative achievements), is often associated with imagination. Even scholars who deny a substantive connection between creativity and imagination typically take this association as their starting point. In psychology, by contrast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7949,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14605\/revisions\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}