Bridling and Post-Bridling

Instead of “bracketing,” associated with phenomenological reduction, usually practiced as a way of suspending one’s pre-understandings from influencing one’s understanding Continue reading →

Tracing Again: Intentionality

Earlier, phenomenology was traced from Husserl’s transcendental type to the more recent postphenomenology advocated by Ihde and Vagle. Although the Continue reading →

Distinguishing phenomenology from phenomenography

An important distinction exists between transcendental and existential phenomenologies as described in previous posts, most notably a subjective versus embodied Continue reading →

Ihde and Vagle: Phenomenology gets Posted

Phenomenology has continued to progress and develop since the mid-1900’s, although it sometimes gets “conflated” with Husserlian essencing (Vagle, 2010a, Continue reading →

Tracing: Merleau-Ponty

Merleau-Ponty: Hermeneutic, existential phenomenology The French philosopher Merleau-Ponty studied Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts in the Husserl Archive in Belgium and reacted Continue reading →

Tracing: Heidegger

Heidegger: Hermeneutic, existential phenomenology  Heidegger, a student of Husserl, was interested in the notion of being and saw phenomenology as Continue reading →

Tracing: Starting with Husserl

Phenomenology is the study of phenomena as humans in the world experience them.It is rooted in Husserl’s reaction to the Continue reading →

Revisiting this Phenomenology Blog

It’s been a year and a half since my last post. I’ve been using other blogs, writing about different ideas. It’s not Continue reading →