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Scientific work and thought is not a single process but a complex group of activities organized and orchestrated toward certain ends. The diversity of approaches taken by participants in this conference — by philosophers, historians, sociologists, and psychologists interested in scientific inquiry — bears witness not only to controversy but to the multifaceted complexity of the scientific enterprise.
An earlier version of this paper was given as a series of lectures at the International Symposium on Evolution, Liblice, Czechoslovakia, June 5–9, 1978. I thank Rachel Falmagne for a critical reading and helpful comments on a draft of this paper.
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An earlier version of this paper was given as a series of lectures at the International Symposium on Evolution, Liblice, Czechoslovakia, June 5–9, 1978. I thank Rachel Falmagne for a critical reading and helpful comments on a draft of this paper.
Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity, together with Darwin’s Early and Unpublished Notebooks, transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, New York: Dutton, 1974; 2nd Edition, University of Chicago Press, 1980.
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Jean Piaget and Barbel Inhelder, La Psychologie de I’Enfant, Paris: Presses Univer- sitaires de France, 1975. See also Η. E. Gruber and J. J. Von£che, flexions sur les орёгайопв formelles de la репвёе, Archives de Psychologie 44 (1976), 44–45.
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Charles Darwin, Charles Darwins Diary of the Voyage of Η. M. S. Beagle edited from the MS by Nora Barlow, Cambridge University Press, 1934. This passage was written on February 28, 1832.
Extracts from first Notebook on Transmutation of Species, pp. 18-22, published in Gruber and Barrett, op. cit. I have added some punctuation.
Howard Nemerov, Figures of Thought, Boston: David R. Godine, 1979.
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For a fuller discussion, see Howard E. Gruber, Darwin’s tree of nature and other images of wider scope, in J. Wechsler (ed.), On Aesthetics in Science, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978.
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Additional case studies similar in character to the approach outlined here include: Rudolph Arnheim, The Genesis of a Painting, Picasso’s Guernica, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962; Frederick L. Holmes, Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry, Harvard University Press, 1974; and Martin Rudwick, Darwin and Glen Roy: A Great Failure in Scientific Method?, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science S (1974), 97–185.
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Gruber, H.E. (1980). The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Scientific Work: Charles Darwin’s Early Thought. In: Nickles, T. (eds) Scientific Discovery: Case Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9015-9_7
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