ABSTRACT

According to James Lovelock of Gaia hypothesis fame, it takes thirty years for innovative ideas to gain acceptance and forty before the heterodox becomes orthodox, all proper and correct and enshrined in textbooks. Thirty years after Stephen Gould’s heretical article on Introspection and the best part of forty years since Morris Holbrook took up his pen, the time is right to evaluate their ideas. Less a rigorous investigation than an irreverent reflection on a reflective research method, this paper summarises the state of the art of introspection – and some of its many permutations – in an appropriately artistic manner.

摘要

根据盖亚假说成名的詹姆斯·洛夫洛克 (James Lovelock) 的说法，创新思想需要 30 年时间才能被接受，而在异端成为正统之前需要 40 年，所有这些都是正确正确的并载入教科书。在斯蒂芬·古尔德（Stephen Gould）关于内省的异端文章发表三十年后，以及莫里斯·霍尔布鲁克（Morris Holbrook）执笔以来四十年中最好的部分，现在是评估他们的想法的时候了。这篇论文与其说是对反思性研究方法的不敬反思，不如说是一种严谨的调查，它以一种适当的艺术方式总结了内省的艺术状态——以及它的许多排列中的一些。