phenomenological
Concerning conscious experience
Phenomenological describes an approach that focuses on how things appear to consciousness and how people experience them, rather than on objective facts or theoretical explanations.
The term comes from phenomenology, a philosophical tradition concerned with the structures of subjective experience.
In research contexts, a phenomenological study examines lived experience from the participant's perspective: The phenomenological interviews revealed how patients actually felt about their treatment.
The word appears most often in academic and philosophical writing.
Purposeful action quality
- qualiaSubjective character of experiences
- reductionMaking something smaller
- givennessStatus of assumed information
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
constitution · synthesis · transcendental · eidetic · essence · invariant · teleology · bracketing
Existential ontology's founder
- Merleau-PontyPhenomenologist of embodiment
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
Perceived stimulus or phenomenon
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- apperceptionMind's awareness of perceiving
- tactilityPerceivability through touch
- kinesthesiaSense of bodily movement
proprioception · figure-ground · perspectival · adumbration · presence · absence · synesthesia · haptic
One's self-image
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
- ipseityPersonal individual identity
- first-person"I" as narrator
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
personhood · agency · individuality · autobiographical · stream-of-consciousness
intentionality
Purposeful action quality
- qualiaSubjective character of experiences
- reductionMaking something smaller
- givennessStatus of assumed information
horizon · constitution · synthesis · transcendental · eidetic · essence · invariant · teleology · bracketing · embodiment
Heidegger
Existential ontology's founder
- Merleau-PontyPhenomenologist of embodiment
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
existentialism · ontology · Dasein · authenticity · transcendence
sensation
Perceived stimulus or phenomenon
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- apperceptionMind's awareness of perceiving
- tactilityPerceivability through touch
kinesthesia · proprioception · figure-ground · perspectival · adumbration · presence · absence · synesthesia · haptic · motility
ego
One's self-image
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
- ipseityPersonal individual identity
- first-person"I" as narrator
self-awareness · personhood · agency · individuality · autobiographical · stream-of-consciousness
- philosophical termsSocratic, Kantian, Cartesian, Aristotelian, dialectical
- research methodsexperiment, hypothesis, deduction, experiments, induction
- qualitativequalitative, descriptive, interpretive, subjective, observational
- viewpoint traitsimpartial, objective, biased, neutral, subjective
phenomenologicalempirical
Based on observation, not theory
positivist · empiricist · behaviorist · naturalistic · analytic
phenomenologicalbehaviorist
Action-focused psychology adherent
behavioristic · mechanistic · neuroscientific · computational · functionalist
phenomenal, phenomenon, phenomena, phenomenally, phenomenology