Where Do They Come From?

“Where do they come from?” is another fundamental and closely related inquiry. There’s a tendency to focus on the psychology or neuroscience of ideation, which are both important.  But the answers that come from this research don’t always relate to our direct experience of ideation.

In practice, philosophy may have just as much to contribute to how we think and talk about the process of ideation. The concern with the nature of ideas goes back to Plato and continues to the present.