phenomenological

comparative more phenomenological · superlative most phenomenological

1. human sciencesOf or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology.

   I call my models "mechanistic" to distinguish them from classical models that are more phenomenological.

   1991 Nov, David Tilman, “Phenomenology From the Natural Standpoint: A Reply to Van Meter Ames”, in The American Naturalist, volume 138, number 5, page 1284

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   Phenomenological "things" are not commonsense objects or sense data but the phenomena in their presentation, grasped as intentional objects.

   1956 Dec, Maurice Natanson, “The Schism between Theory and Ardent Empiricism”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 17, number 2, page 244

   A similar and more influential use of the term can be found in William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1847), where phenomenology occurs in the context of the "palaetiological sciences" (i.e., sciences which deal wih more ancient conditions of things), as that branch of these studies which is to be followed by aetiology and theory. Among such phenomenologies Whewell mentions particularly phenomenological uranology, phenomenological geography of plants and animals, and even a phenomenological glossology.

   1994, Herbert Spiegelberg, Karl Schuhmann, “Introduction”, in The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction, 3rd rev. and enlarged edition, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, page 8

   The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.

   1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv

   He [Martin Heidegger] was influenced by Edmund Husserl, a German thinker born in 1859 who was soon to become the leading figure of the phenomenological movement, dedicated to the description and investigation of our conscious experience without reference to its extramental causes and consequences.

   2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R10

2. medicineUsing the method of phenomenology, by which the observer examines data and other subjective effects without trying to provide a pathophysiological explanation of them, especially in diagnosing disease states and in nosology and other forms of taxonomy.

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   Ross and his colleagues [...] drew on prior research...to suggest that addictive gambling resembles dependence on stimulants (like cocaine) more than it does alcoholism, and hence enlarges our understanding of addiction more fully than purely behavioural criteria would do. The worry is that a behavioural approach misses the similarities and differences between forms of addiction by treating all as more or less the same, based on shared behavioural and phenomenological effects.

   July 28, 2010, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, The Philosophy of Psychiatry