phenomenology
phenomenology
Definition
phe·nom·enol·ogy (fə näm′ə näl′ə jē)
noun
- the philosophical study of phenomena, as distinguished from ontology, the study of being; specif., such a study of perceptual experience in its purely subjective aspect
- a descriptive or classificatory account of the phenomena of a given body of knowledge, without any further attempt at explanation
Etymology: phenomenon + -logy
phe·nom′·eno·log′i·cal (-nō läj′i kəl, -nə-) adjective
phe·nom′·eno·log′i·cally adverb
phe·nom′·enol′·o·gist noun
phenomenology
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- religion: Alistair's second major area of research has been the phenomenology of religion.
- experience: I argue that the new skepticism rests on a problematic phenomenology of perceptual experience.
- consciousness: This restriction empties the phenomenology of consciousness of some of its richness.
- perception: A haiku phenomenology of perception reduces a named object to an entity in consciousness punctuated by emptiness.
- medium: Areas of expertise: Media history: the media and public life; media and language; phenomenology of the media.
- action: This article will begin by reviewing some historical attempts to investigate the phenomenology of action.
Possessives
- pain: For another, why not simply say that the functional role itself constitutes pain's affective phenomenology?
Converse of object
- explore: Various schools of digital art criticism have emerged, but they have not greatly explored the phenomenology and ontology of digital art.
- call: However, for this project a method called phenomenology is planned.
- use: I have completed a masters degree in which I examined the lived experience of being a prison nurse using phenomenology.
- investigate: My research interest is in the use of functional MRI to investigate the phenomenology of mental illness.
- associate: Then it looks at the connection between these ideas and the more modern phenomenology associated with UFOs and alien contact.
Adjective modifier
- transcendental: The crisis of the European sciences and transcendental phenomenology.
- existential: His writings prior to 1960 are in the tradition of existential phenomenology.
- differential: It will pass the test of what you can call differential phenomenology.
- critical: But critical phenomenology can be used to show that law's existential claims in this area are hollow.
- affective: For another, why not simply say that the functional role itself constitutes pain's affective phenomenology?
- stellar: A range of stellar phenomenology and behavior will be presented together with basic astrophysical interpretations.
Noun used with modifier
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