I had a chance to catch up with phenomenologist Kai Riemer at SIGGRAPH where he gave his perspective on what phenomenology is and why it’s holistic approach could provide some vital insights for ...

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle places the art of medicine alongside other examples of technē. According to Gadamer, however, medicine is different because in medicine the physician does not, ...

A sixtieth Anniversary commemoration of the publication of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Masterpiece; A Franco-British Conference, June 17 and 18, 2005, Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, ...

Pollock's drip technique generated certain unconventional representational possibilities, including the possibility of expressing the pre-reflective involvement of an embodied, intentional subject in ...

Prof. David Morris wins Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology for "Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology," published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. The Edward Goodwin Ballard ...

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The phenomenology: what are we talking about? Phenomenology is a philosophical current initiated by Husserl that seeks to apprehend reality as it is given, through phenomena. Husserl's key word is ...

Phenomenology is most commonly used to refer to a movement in 20th century philosophy, the central figures of which were Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

At its core, phenomenology is about describing experiences as they unfold without the influence of preconceived ideas. It echoes the German philosopher Edmund Husserl’s call to go “back to the things ...