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Qualitative critical phenomenology

M. D. de Boer, Kristin Zeiler

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences October 16, 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s11097-024-10034-7 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Qualitative Peer reviewed
Topics Philosophy of mind
Key points Proposes 'Qualitative Critical Phenomenology' (QCP) as a systematic qualitative research approach serving an explicit phenomenological philosophical aim. Argues that phenomenological themes such as varieties of pre-/reflectivity and the phenomenological reduction matter for designing and conducting QCP inquiry, and that QCP can provide a critical lens on prevailing socio-cultural norms and their constitutive force in co-shaping perception and experience.

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Since its inception, phenomenological philosophy has engaged with empirical data of lived experiences. Recently, phenomenological philosophy itself has branched out into performing systematic qualitative research, resulting in a heterogeneous field of qualitative phenomenological philosophy. By introducing and outlining the research approach of ‘Qualitative Critical Phenomenology’ (QCP), this paper shows how one may conduct systemic qualitative research to lived experiences with an explicit phenomenological philosophical aim. In building on insights from various approaches within critical phenomenology, we not only give a stepwise explication of how to do QCP, we also discuss how we reflectively engage with lived experience as a research object and how key phenomenological themes – i.e. varieties of pre-/reflectivity and the phenomenological reduction – matter for designing and conducting a QCP inquiry. As such, we contribute to discussions on critical phenomenology – i.e. why it matters – but also to debates on how qualitative critical phenomenology may provide a critical lens to prevailing socio-cultural norms and their constitutive force in co-shaping perception and experience.

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