Can the Doing of Phenomenology be Learned?

by Lester E. Embree

"Given the thousands of bibliographical items, there can be no doubt that skill at interpreting phenomenological texts can be learned. But phenomenology is not the interpretation of texts. It is rather the reflective observation, analysis, and eidetic description of phenomena, which is to say mental or intentive processes and things-as-intended-to or encountered in them and there are not anywhere near thousands of items of this sort and this despite methodological descriptions in such works as Edmund Husserl’s Ideen (1913). One can wonder why."

Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
I. What is Reflective Analysis?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
II. Reflection on Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
III. Indirect Encountering Reflectively Analyzed. . . . . . . . 23
IV. Utter Unreflectiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
V. Some Reflective Analysis of Recollecting . . . . . . . . . . 35
VI. Feigning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
VII. The Derivation of Oughts and Shalls from Ises . . . . . . .49
VIII. The Justification of Norms Reflectively Analyzed. . . . . 57
IX. Reflective Analysis of a Way to Compose Reflective Analyses 64
X. A Way to Teach Reflective Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Closing Remark: The Need for Reflective Analysis . . . . . . . .80

88 pages, ebook

First published October 14, 2012