Articles on Creativity and Pretense

[9] Pretend play: more imitative than imaginative. (With Heather Adair.) Mind & Language (2023).

[8] Mechanisms for constrained stochasticity. Synthese, 197 (2020), 4455-4473.

[7] Imagination and pretense. (With Elizabeth Picciuto.) In A. Kind (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination. Routledge, 2016.

[6]    The origins of creativity. (With Elizabeth Picciuto.) In E. Paul and S. Kaufman, The Philosophy of Creativity. Oxford University Press, 2012.

[5]    Creative action in mind. Philosophical Psychology, 24 (2011), 347-361.

[4]    The creative-action theory of creativity. In Carruthers, Laurence, and Stich (eds.), The Innate Mind 3: foundations and the future. OUP, 2007.

[3]    Why pretend? In S. Nichols (ed.), The Architecture of the Imagination. OUP, 2006.

[2] Human creativity: its evolution, its cognitive basis, and its connections with childhood pretence. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53 (2002), 225-249. Click here for pdf.

[1] Pretend play: is it meta-representational? (With Chris Jarrold, Jill Boucher, and Peter K Smith.) Mind and Language 9 (1994), 445-468.