Gruber H.E. Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science

Eds.: Gruber H.E. and Bödeker K. — Springer, 2005. — 533 p. — (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Vol. 245). — ISBN: 1-4020-3491-1, 1-4020-3509-8, 978-1-4020-3491-6, 978-1-4020-3509-8.
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. 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.Preface by Jürgen Renn
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 Human Survival
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