Creativity

The Beginning and Evolution of Creativity

By cataylo2

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes
    First major figure to recognize how importantant imagination is in human thought and planning and how constructive it is.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Romanticisim - became the source of an artisitc counterthrust to scientific rationalism.

  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith
    Philosopher during the enlightenment period. He wrote the classic work "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Adaptation, Diversity, and Natural Selection: Empirical Formula for Creativity.

  • Francis Gaulton

    Francis Gaulton
    Eugenics - a deliberate program to scientifically increase British talent.

  • Catherine Cox

    Catherine Cox
    conducted her dissertation on a study that was planned as an extension on Terman's (1917) own method of estimating Galton's IQ to a smaple of individuals achieving eminence between 1450 and 1850.