February 6, 2018Nancy Tuana, Rosemarie Putnam Tong
Phenomenological philosophy is rooted in the desire to ground philosophy in lived experiences. Initially developed by Edmund Husserl and significantly modified by Martin Heideggar and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology was a response to the privileging of objectivity as the hallmark of reason. Phenomenology embraces the importance and centrality of human subjectivity—the flow of lived human...