Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press (2022)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather than think of curiosity as a drive to acquire new bits of information, they argue that curiosity is a practice of connection"--

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,139

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Curious to Know.Eliran Haziza - 2022 - Episteme:1-15.
Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry.Perry Zurn - 2021 - Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press.
Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.Perry Zurn (ed.) - 2020 - Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press.
Curiosity: Care, Virtue and Pleasure in Uncovering the New.Richard Phillips - 2015 - Theory, Culture and Society 32 (3):149-161.
The Virtue of Erotic Curiosity.Rachel Aumiller - 2022 - Philosophy and Literature 46 (1):208-222.
On Teaching Curiosity.Perry Zurn & Arjun Shankar - 2020 - In Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 269-290.
Democratic education and curiosity.Marianna Papastephanou - 2023 - Ethics and Education 18 (3-4):331-353.

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-10-20

Downloads
5 (#1,752,423)

6 months
4 (#1,252,858)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Danielle Bassett
University of Pennsylvania
Perry Zurn
American University

Citations of this work

Curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD.Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen & Somogy Varga - 2025 - Philosophical Psychology 38 (2):897-921.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references