Artistic Creativity in View of the Philosophy of Technology

The reasoning provided in the current work is aimed to compare the scheme of an art work – in the way Roman Ingarden formulates it – and the scheme of a technical object – the way Petr Engelmeyer and Friedrich Dessauer formulate it. “Critical Philosophy” in terms of Ivan Lapshin, Ernst Cassirer and Semiotics as a transcendentalist project have been chosen to provide the contextual environment with respect to reasoning and vocabulary. The goal of the reasoning is to reconstruct the model of activity within artistic and technical creativity, and to unfold its resulting features: an art work and a technical object. The questions that this reasoning brings us closer to are: to what extent the art work is a technical object, how it realizes technical objectives and at what levels. Accordingly, the global problems these questions are touching on are the nature of artistic creativity, invention and discovery, and the problem of control, goal setting and goal realization.