Creative’ is not a word that is frequently used - at least in analytic circles - in describing the work of philosophers and logicians. In this talk Prof. Dr. Michael Beaney illustrated how philosophy and logic are indeed creative at their deepest levels by taking five case studies: Meno’s paradox, Cantor’s ‘discovery’ of transfinite numbers, Frege’s construal of concepts as functions, Russell’s use of interpretive analysis in the theory of descriptions, and Kant’s Copernican revolution.
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