Understanding Genius

Schopenhauer defined genius in relation to the more conventional quality of talent. “Talent hits a target others miss. Genius hits a target no one sees.” Is originality indeed the sine qua non of genius? Is there, following Kant, a radical separation of the aesthetic genius from the brilliant scientific mind? What further distinctions might be made between different types of genius? If “The Child is father of the Man,” why don’t child prodigies always grow up to become adult geniuses?

Participants:

Steve Hsu
Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University

Rex Jung
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico

Joanne Ruthsatz
Assistant Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Mansfield

Dean Keith Simonton
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis

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