Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction

by Don Ihde

Phenomonology, Philosophy

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory

156 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Don Ihde is an American philosopher of science and technology. In 1979 he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology, Technics and Praxis. Before his retirement, Don Ihde was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Reviews

[Bryan]

Summary:
- Conditioning impacts seeing
- Two or more things can be simultaneously true
- Because of this it is useful to consider other possibilities before jumping to conclusions
- You can train yourself to see differently if you approach the act of thinking differently (bracketing, epoche, etc)

It still feels more complicated than it needs to be

[Chris]

A fun and exciting fall to actually "do" phenomenology. Experiments, multistabilities, and exploring the many modes of perception that shape the world

[Obbrey]

I can’t stop looking at things

[Ishan Vashishta]

Was actually really impressed with this introduction, I'd read some about phenomenology from a more historical context, but I loved seeing what it can actually look like in practice.

In particular, I think the first half of this book was really exceptional, some of the stuff near the end bringing in other disciplines was kind of hand-wavey/vague, but interesting nonetheless.

As someone who comes from a background which treats some of the big 20th century (French) continental systems which condescension, I was pleasantly surprised at how methodical/mathematical the actual practice of phenomenology appears to be.

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Phew, I think (?) this was a great introduction to phenomenology.

Even better, it was a great introduction to the phenomenological method.

Ihde minces no words and wastes no time.

[Reuben]

Great introduction that does it's best to introduce and excite the reader on phenomenology. I'd say it performed that task wonderfully.

[Lexi]

3.5⭐️

[Steve]

This book was real good.