AI and the Decentering of Disciplinary Creativity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23734v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:05:41 GMT
• Title: AI and the Decentering of Disciplinary Creativity
• Authors: Eamon Duede,
• Abstract summary: Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of creativity, I distinguish between creative approaches and creative products.<n>I show that while computation can extend disciplinary creativity, certain approaches involving AI can serve to displace it.
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• Abstract: This paper examines the role of artificial intelligence in scientific problem-solving, with a focus on its implications for disciplinary creativity. Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of creativity, I distinguish between creative approaches and creative products, and introduce the concept of disciplinary creativity -the creative application of discipline-specific expertise to a valued problem within that field. Through two cases in mathematics, I show that while computation can extend disciplinary creativity, certain approaches involving AI can serve to displace it. This displacement has the potential to alter (and, perhaps, diminish) the value of scientific pursuit.

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