As a philosophical movement, phenomenology was founded by Edmund Husserl, the German philosopher. Its main concern is to provide philosophy with a foundation that will enable it to be a pure and autonomous discipline free from all presuppositions. Its...

Phenomenological Psychology "Phenomenological psychology" departs from empirical psychology by suspending naturalistic assumptions about human consciousness and by adopting a unique method, namely the phenomenological reduction, as a...

. Literally, the description or study of appearances. Any description of how things appear, especially if sustained and penetrating, can be called a phenomenology. The close attention given by linguistic PHILOSOPHY to the actual workings of language is...

A philosophical approach to understanding, developed by Husserl, who believed that any analysis of a phenomenon should begin with a scrupulous introspection of one’s own intellectual processes, so that one is conscious of what is experienced,...

Phenomenology has at least three main meanings in philosophical history: one in the writings of G.W.F. Hegel, another in the writings of Edmund Husserl in 1920, and a third, deriving from Husserl's work, in the writings of his former research assistant...

Essay is a study of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, with a view to understanding phenomenology. Defines phenomenology and references three texts on the study of phenomenology.