"Descriptive phenomenology"

remarks on Husserl's approach to the foundation of knowledge

pp. 21-43

in: Elisabeth Ströker, The Husserlian foundations of science, Berlin, Springer, 1997

Abstract

I. The phrase "descriptive phenomenology" might seem like a pleonasm, since there is no phenomenology that claims to proceed in any other than a descriptive way. Nevertheless, all phenomenologists emphasize the attribute "descriptive," and at the beginning of our considerations it may be helpful to focus upon what they mean by it.