Creativity, psychology and the history of science

Authors:Howard E. Gruber, Katja Bödeker

Summary: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.

Print Book, English, 2010

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Publisher: Springer, Dordrecht, 2010

Series:

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 245, 245

Genre:History

Physical Description:viii, 532 pages : some figure, table ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9789048168842, 9781402034916, 9048168848, 1402034911

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1015517444

Subjects:

Creative ability

Creativity

Créativité

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

Contents:

Introduction: A Life with a Purpose.- The Creative Person as a Whole.- The Case Study That Started It All: Charles Darwin.- Facets of the Creative Process: Insight, Point of View and Repetition.- Modalities.- Tracking The Ordinary Course of Development.- Coping with the Extraordinary.- Creativity in the Moral Domain.- Peace and Further Conditions for Human Welfare.