Abstract Whereas classical Critical Theory has tended to view phenomenology as inherently uncritical, the recent upsurge of what become known critical attempted show that phenomenological concepts and methods can be used in analyses social political issues. A landmark publication, 50 Concepts for Phenomenology , contains no reference psychiatry psychopathology, however. This is an unfortunate o...

In this paper, the author examines phenomenology and hermeneutics as research traditions and proposes a philosophical basis for their use. The author develops an iterative research process model that meets the needs of socio-technical research into technical innovation. This rigorous hybrid methodology is called hermeneutic phenomenology and is shown to be an excellent approach to dealing with ...

Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience, Springer's series Studies in Brain and Mind, 2013, pp An Epistemology for Phenomenology? INTRODUCTION There is a tendency to assimilate so called "consciousness studies" to studies of the phenomenology of experience, and it seems to me that this is a shame. It is a shame, I think, because there is no such thing as a legitimate phenomeno...