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Phenomenology is a philosophy that had its beginnings in 1900 when Edmund Husserl (1900/1970), its founder, wrote one of his more famous works. Logical Investigations. The notion of phenomenology that Husserl advocated was more implicit in that work than defined, but his sense of phenomenology became explicit in his subsequent work. Ideas I (1913/1983). Phenomenology takes as its theme the relationship between conscious acts and the objects to which they are directed, the term object referring to anything, real or imaginary, or even illusory, that can be related to acts of consciousness. More briefly, one could say that phenomenology is the study of the relationship between consciousness and its objects. It is a philosophy that tries to develop this theme in a rigorous and consistent way, and it has also articulated an attitude and a method whereby the relationship between conscious acts and their objects can be accessed and thoroughly studied. Over the course of the last century phenomenology has developed in disparate and almost contrary ways, but as Spiegelberg (1982) has shown, there is nevertheless a unifying theme to its development.
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Giorgi, A. (2006). The Value of Phenomenology for Psychology. In: Ashworth, P.D., Chung, M.C. (eds) Phenomenology and Psychological Science. History and Philosophy of Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33762-3_3
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