Empirical Phenomenology

Phenomenology and the Empirical Turn: a Phenomenological Analysis of Postphenomenology

This paper provides a phenomenological analysis of postphenomenological philosophy of technology. While acknowledging that the results of its analyses are to be recognized as original, insightful, and valuable, we will argue that in its execution of the empirical turn, postphenomenology forfeits a phenomenological dimension of questioning. By contrasting the postphenomenological method with Hei...

Empirical Phenomenology : A Qualitative Research Approach ( The Cologne Seminars )

This paper introduces the philosophical foundation and practical application of empirical phenomenology in social research. The approach of empirical phenomenology builds upon the phenomenology of the philosophers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and the sociologist Alfred Schütz, but considers how their more philosophical and theoretical insights can be used in empirical research. It aims a...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Qualitative research methodology: phenomenology

There are two qualitative and quantitative research paradigms in the methodological debates. Phenomenological approach is one of the most important methods in the qualitative researches. ‎Depending on researcher’s view on study phenomenon, this approach is divided into two main ‎methods of descriptive and interpretive. Despite the many similarities between the two methods, ‎th...

urban defenseless spaces in the city and sense of fear empirical phenomenology of crossing bridge underpasses in mashhad metropolis

1. introduction defenseless spaces including areas with high vulnerability index in the cities due to the population growth and physical expansion on one hand and the exhaustion and destruction across the old areas on the other hand, nowadays are highly increased (laidler, 2009). urban defenseless spaces due to the high influence on urban life especially in order to the sense of fear of crime a...