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Phenomenology is a philosophical movement associated with Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. It is also a philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

The following are sources of information about phenomenology.

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What is meant by transcendental phenomenology?

... as opposed to "phenomenology." I suspect transcendental phenomenology refers specifically to some of Edmund Husserl's studies. But I would like to understand what was meant by them. I am finding the Wikipedia and Phenomenology Online…
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What is a Horizon?

What do phenomenologists mean by "Horizon". I thought I understood it from the context when I first saw it, but every time I see it I get more confused. Now I have no idea. Can someone explain what it is?
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What phenomenological research methods exist?

I am trying to understand the methods that have been used to develop theory in phenomenology. As far as I can make out these boil down to:- Introspection and intuition (and ? mindfullness) Ethnographic methods: participant observation / diary /…
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Meanings of multiple and variable

This is from Ñanavira's Notes on Dhamma - Phassa footnote C: If experience were confined to the use of a single eye, the eye and forms would not be distinguishable, they would not appear as separate things; there would be just the experience…
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What is Organic Unity and why is every situation an organic unity?

The is from Ñanavira's book: Notes on Dhamma. It is from footnote b in the notes on Anicca: McTaggart, in The Nature of Existence (Cambridge 1921-7, §§149-54), remarks that philosophers have usually taken the expressions 'organic unity' and 'inner…
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Has phenomenology ever produced a useful philosophical insight?

Analytic philosophy, although not without its faults, has made some real progress in moving us beyond traditional metaphysics. Nobody really believes, for example, in Platonic forms any more. On the other hand, phenomenology, or the…
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Source of "Vision is to touch with the gaze"

I have been going back through every note and flagged book I have and trying every search term combination to try to find the source of a quote or passage that noted the concept that 'vision is to touch with the gaze.' It may not be an exact quote…
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Naturalism that is self-refuting in Husserl

I'm reading the book D. O. Dhalstrom. Heidegger's concept of truth. Digitally printed version 2009, Cambridge University Press (2009), and on page 124 the author states: There is, for example, a metaphysical sense of naturalism that Husserl deems…
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A couple of questions regarding imagination

Here is a passage from Ñanavira's Notes on Dhamma. Images here refer to mental content (imaginations). Five-base refers to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) There is no doubt that images are frequently made up of elements of past…
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How do we think about absences?

The notion of intentional content as distinct from intentional object is also important in relation to the issue of thought about and reference to non-existent objects. Examples of this include perceptual illusions, thought about fictional objects…
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Is there a phenomenology of two-dimensional linear perspective?

The advent of Brunelleschi's linear perspective, with a vanishing point at infinity, is said to place the observer at a "natural" position, as if looking through a window. And indeed we interpret the perspective drawing as appearing "as we see…
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Is Phenomenology against the mathematization of the social sciences?

As I understand it, (correct me if I'm wrong) Husserl believed that the distinction between the mind and brain is violated when we consider the possibility of measuring the qualities of the former with the same level of exactitude and precision that…
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A question in Phenomenology

I'm trying to understand Phenomenology better and I have a question that might be clarify it for me: Let's assume that I'm looking at the stars during the night. What I see is that the stars are moving, I have a friend the he is astronomer and he…
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