In the mid-2000s, the term Two-Eyed Seeing was introduced by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall to suggest the complementarity of Western and Indigenous sciences. The concept has since been adopted and applied in a diverse range of research. This article examines the latent tension in Two-Eyed Seeing between a desire to foster dialogue—in order, ideally, to generate a trans-cultural “third space” of understanding—and the denial or suppression of major contradictions between predominantly wholistic Indigenous and predominantly reductionist Eurocentric worldviews. Examples are considered of both fruitful Two-Eyed Seeing collaborations and areas where antithetical approaches cannot be combined, for reasons that a more critical application of the Two-Eyed Seeing concept could help make clear. Conversely, revisioned in this way, Two-Eyed Seeing can deepen appreciation of those areas of Western science, such as the delicate empiricism of Goethean science, authentically resonant with Indigenous approaches.

在2000年代中期，米科沃·艾伯特·马歇尔（Mi'kmaw Elbert Marshall）老人引入了“两眼看见”一词，以暗示西方和本土科学的互补性。此概念已被采用并应用于各种研究中。本文考察了《两眼看见》中的潜在张力在促进对话的愿望（理想情况下是为了产生跨文化的“第三空间”的理解）与否定或压制主要是整体性的土著主义和主要是还原主义的欧洲中心世界观之间的主要矛盾。考虑到富有成果的“两眼视力”合作以及无法将对立方法结合起来的领域的例子，原因是“两眼视力”概念的更关键的应用可以帮助弄清楚。相反，以这种方式修订的《两眼看见》可以加深对西方科学领域的欣赏，例如，哥特式科学的精致经验主义，与土著方法产生了真实的共鸣。