Humanistic view
Creativity is an interdisciplinary topic per se. Psychology addresses it since the 1950s. Sociology focuses on it as a genuine social process. Philosophy has a long tradition of reflection on creativity in aesthetics and, more recently, also beyond the arts.
We intend to pursue a still wider interdisciplinary outlook encompassing the life sciences. Evolutionary biology is abandoning gene-centrism and appreciating behaviour, cognition and culture as primary forces in evolution. Archaeology no longer conceives culture as an epiphenomenon of genetics and natural selection. The neurosciences realize that cognition is not a matter of sole brain processes but involves bodily, environmental, and social dynamics. The role of theology is strategically crucial (cf. Veritatis Gaudium, Foreword, c): our planned research will let all the mentioned disciplines interact in a theology-informed milieu.
