The Disappearance of Introspection by Lyons William E

Author:Lyons, William E. [Lyons, William E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2007-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Even if a majority of people in our culture said that they had a strong conviction that they had an ability to introspect in an immediate and noninferential way occurrent mental or brain events, it may only be the case thatand this is a truismpeople in Western culture have accepted uncritically their culture's belief that every adult human normally has the ability to introspect according to the traditional proto-model of introspection. I would guess, however, that any poll of the whole population, or of a judiciously selected sample of it, would not reveal a wholesale commitment to a belief in introspection as described traditionally, partly, I suspect, because most people would not even know what was meant by the word "introspection" in the pollster's questions. Generally "introspection" is a term reserved for the debates and theories of philosophers and psychologists. As Ryle put it,

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