当代西方创造力研究的考察

首先 ,当代西方创造力研究是对历史上有关种种神秘创造观念的根本否定 ,这可根源于其实用主义的哲学背景、对实验心理学研究传统的继承以及近代自然科学飞速发展的大背景。其次 ,文章对吉尔福特、托兰斯、郎利和琼斯、斯堪克、约翰逊·赖德等人的创造力研究模式进行了述评 ,指出当代西方创造力研究虽以认知研究为特色 ,但在强调科学性、精确性的同时 ,却陷入以“方法中心”消解“问题中心”的困境 ,呈现出“学术科学主义”的倾向

Recent developments in modern western creativity research

Firstly, creativity research is the basic negation to mysteristic sense of creativity in history, this can be accused to its pragmatic philosophical background, adhered to the study tradition of experienmental psychology and the background of modern science quick moving. Secondly, the thesis describes the research model of Guidford,Torrance, Langley and Jones, Schank, John Laird etc. Though creativity research is of cognitive characteristic, but falls into predicament of "means centering" instead of "Problem Centering" at the same time of emphasizing scientific and accuracy, and presents a tendency of "academic scientism".