phenomenology
/fəˌnɑməˈnɑlədʒi/
noun
- A philosophical method or approach that studies the structures of experience and consciousness from a first-person point of view.
- The philosopher Edmund Husserl is known as the founder of modern phenomenology.
- Phenomenology asks what it is like to actually experience something.
- In her class, we used phenomenology to analyze how people perceive time.