Overview
- Provides a transdisciplinary approach to creativity research that bridges psychology and history of science
- Gives a comprehensive overview of the work of one of the leading scholars in creativity research
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of the creative individual including the development of knowledge, purpose and affect
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 245)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science
Editors: Howard E. Gruber †, Katja Bödeker
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3509-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3491-6Published: 22 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6884-2Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3509-8Published: 28 December 2005
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 548
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Cognitive Psychology, Epistemology, History of Science, Personality and Social Psychology