Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science

ISBN-13: 9789048168842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 548 str.

H. E. Gruber; Katja Bodeker; Katja B. Deker

Opis

Creativity, Psychology, and the History of Science offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Howard E. Gruber, who is noted for his contributions both to the psychology of creativity and to the history of science. Gruber is a pioneer in combining history of science and cognitive psychology by means of detailed and meticulous case studies. His award-winning books Darwin on man and The essential Piaget are both modern classics. The present book includes papers from a wide range of topics. In the contributions to creativity research, Gruber proposes his key ideas for studying creative work. Gruber focuses on how the thinking, motivation and affect of extraordinarily creative individuals evolve and how they interact over long periods of time. Gruber's approach bridges many disciplines and subdisciplines in psychology and beyond, several of which are represented in the present volume: cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, history of science, aesthetics, and politics. The volume thus presents a unique and comprehensive contribution to our understanding of the creative process. Many of Gruber's papers have not previously been easily accessible; they are presented here in thoroughly revised form. The book is for psychologists, historians and philosophers of science interested in the intersection of psychology and the history of science.

Spis treści

Introduction by Katja Bödeker A Life with a Purpose The Creative Person as a Whole The Evolving Systems Approach to the Study of Creative Work The Case Study Method and Evolving Systems Approach for Understanding Unique Creative People at Work Inching Our Way up Mount Olympus: The Evolving-Systems Approach to Creative Thinking Networks of Enterprise in Creative Scientific Work The Case Study That Started It All: Charles Darwin The Eye of Reason: Darwin’s Development during the Beagle Voyage The Emergence of a Sense of Purpose: A Cognitive Case Study of Young Darwin Going the Limit: Toward the Construction of Darwin’s Theory (1832-1839) Diverse Relations between Psychology and Evolutionary Thought Facets of the Creative Process: Insight, Point of View and Repetition Creativity and the Constructive Function of Repetition On the Relation between 'Aha Experiences' and the Construction of Ideas The Cooperative Synthesis of Disparate Points of View Modalities: The Stuff of Experience From Perception to Thought Darwin’s 'Tree of Nature' and Other Images of Wide Scope Ensembles of Metaphors in Creative Scientific Thinking The Life Space of a Scientist: The Visionary Function and Other Aspects of Jean Piaget’s Thinking Tracking the Ordinary Course of Development: Piagetian Reflections The Development of Object Permanence in the Cat Introduction to the Essential Piaget Piaget’s Mission Which Way Is Up? A Developmental Question Coping with the Extraordinary: On the Relation between Giftedness and Creativity On the Hypothesized Relation Between Giftedness and Creativity The Self-Construction of the Extraordinary Giftedness and Moral Responsibility: Creative Thinking and HumanSurvival Creativity in the Moral Domain Creativity in the Moral Domain: Ought Implies Can Implies Create Creativity and Human Survival Peace and Further Conditions for Human Welfare Man or Megaperson? Peace Research, Where Is It Going? Optimism and the Inventor’s Paradigm Bibliography of H.E. Gruber’s Writings Cited References Subject Index Name Index

O autorze

Katja Bödeker studierte Psychologie und Philosophie an der Freien Universität in Berlin. Seit 1998 ist sie als Mitarbeiterin am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in einem Projekt zur Geschichte der Mechanik und seit 2004 als Mitarbeiterin der Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters an der Charite in Berlin tätig.