Creativity for the epistemic conservative

Curiosity is a central trait that initiates our epistemic pursuits. How one engages with it, both reliably and responsibly, will be highly entwined with virtuous insensitivity: that which constrains our curiosity in such a way that removes our attention from any unnecessary and irrelevant material, thus, leaving us able to successfully open and close inquiry. The problem I seek to explore here is that, despite its epistemic value, virtuous insensitivity should hinder our epistemic endeavors by creating a hyper-discriminatory, vicious epistemic conservatism that bars us from accessing abstract content and nontraditional narratives; however, this is not the case. Epistemic agents considered both reliably and responsibly curious are still able to engage with these concepts. I argue that this is made possible by creativity, since it allows for unique inquiries and epistemic risk taking.