Sandra Dingli

Sandra Dingli
Born	1952 Paceville, Malta
Occupation	Philosopher

Sandra Dingli (born 1952) is a Maltese philosopher mostly specialised in Creative Thinking. ^[1]

Life

Dingli was born at Paceville, Malta, in 1952. She started attending philosophy and language courses at the University of Malta, and later proceeding to graduate courses at the same university. She acquired a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Philosophy, and proceeded to obtain a Doctorate in Philosophy from Durham University in England.

Her breakthrough came in 1992 when she was appointed the Director of the Edward de Bono Institute for the Design & Development of Thinking at the University of Malta. This gave her a golden opportunity to show her skills as an international organiser and as a philosopher. She is no longer Director of the Institute but remains a lecturer at the University of Malta.

Works

Book

• 2005 – On Thinking and the World'. This is a 218-page work published by Ashgate Publishing Limited, England in which Dingli selects five particular contemporary philosophical topics which John McDowell deals with and investigates in detail the implications of particular points of view, analysing the current literature on each topic and drawing out shortcomings and possibilities for overcoming them. The work is both a critique and a complement to McDowell's text.

Published editions

Dingli is also the editor of a number of published books, namely:

• 1994 - Creative Thinking: A Multifaceted Approach
• 1996 - Creative Thinking: New Perspectives
• 1998 - Creative Thinking: Towards Broader Horizons
• 2002 - Creative Thinking: An Indispensable Asset for a Successful Future
• 2007 – Creative Thinking: Designing Future Possibilities

Chapters in books

The following are a selection of Dingli's published chapters in books:

• 1999 - 'Creativity in Practice at the University of Malta'. ^[2]
• 2002 - 'Let's Shake the Apple Tree: Creative Thinking at the University of Malta'. ^[3]
• 2005 - 'Organisational Creativity and Innovation: Crisis Management or Sustainable Development'. ^[4]
• 2006 - 'A Plea for Responsibility towards the Common Heritage of Mankind'. ^[5]
• 2007 - 'Quality Television for Children in 2015’ (with J. Casingena Harper). ^[6]
• 2007 - 'Reflections on the Creative Climate'. ^[7]
• 2008 - 'Lateral Thinking: Thinking Out of the Box'. ^[8]
• 2009 - 'Children, Media and Multitasking' (with S. Pulis Xerxen). ^[9]

See also

• Philosophy in Malta

References

1. Mark Montebello, Malta's Philosophy & Philosophers, PIN Publications, Malta, 2001, pp. 156-159.
2. Paper presented at conference ‘Creativity in Practice’, Zakopane, Poland, 1998, published in Creativity in Practice, Published by Drukamia Akademicka Instytutu Postepowania Tworczego Sp.zo.o., Poland.
3. In Creative Thinking: An Indispensable Asset for a Successful Future, ed. by Sandra Dingli.
4. In The 1st Creativity and Innovation Community Workshop: Proceedings, in Creativity Innovation Management, published by Blackwell Publishing, UK, in association with the University of Twente, Holland.
5. In The Ethics of Archaeology, ed. by C. Scarre and G. Scarre, Cambridge University Press.
6. In Programmi Ta’ Kwalità ghat-Tfal, ed. by K. Aquilina, M. Axiak, D. DeBono and M. Muscat Azzopardi, commissioned by the Broadcasting Authority (Malta) and the Commissioner for Children (Malta), Progress Press Company Limited.
7. In Creative Thinking: Designing Future Possibilities, ed. by Sandra M. Dingli, Malta University Press, Malta.
8. In Routledge Companion to Creativity, ed. by M. Runco, T. Rickards and S. Moger, Routledge (Taylor and Francis).
9. In Expoloring the Maltese Media Landscape, ed. by J. Borg, A. Hillman and M.A. Lauri, Allied Publications, Malta.