Phenomenological psychology

Phenomenology
1. Definitions
  1. The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
  2. Discipline that studies the structures of experience, or consciousness.
  3. The meanings things have in our experience.
  4. Is interested in how things appear to us.
Experience
1. Is directed toward an object by virtue of its content or meaning together with appropriate enabling conditions.
The field of philosophy related to
1. Ontology (the study of being or what is)
2. Epistemology (the study of knowledge)
3. Logic (the study of valid reasoning)
4. Ethics (the study of right and wrong actions)
Husserl
1. Intentionality
  1. All consciousness is consciousness of something.
2. Structurally consciousness
  1. A polarity whereby there is an object meant at one end of the pole and act of meaning at the other end.
3. How does consciousness structure experiences so that we are able to think?
4. Reduction "epoche"
  1. Phenomenological reduction is to free phenomenologists from ordinary beliefs about the nature of the world.
5. Natural attitude
  1. Our ordinary way of being conscious of the world.
  2. We are puppets dancing on strings without freedom.
Gallagher and Zahavi
1. Coming to know how something really is also consists of that thing appearning in a variety of ways.
2. Things appearing is the foundation of all experiential knowledge.

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