Global Knowledge and phenomenology
How will we express our findings using a phenomenlogical structure?
If we are to consider the 'Seven Widely Accepted Features of the Phenomenological Approach', we then must think about:
- the unobservable matters and grand systems erected in speculative thinking;
- how we will/should oppose naturalism (also called objectivism and positivism), which is the worldview growing from modern natural science and technology;
- how we will justify our perceptions (and also evaluation and action) with reference to what Edmund Husserl called Evidenz, which is awareness of a matter itself as disclosed in the most clear, distinct, and adequate way for something of its kind;
- how we will justify the beliefthat not only objects in the natural and cultural worlds, but also ideal objects, such as numbers, and even conscious life itself can be made evident;
- how our inquiry ought to focus upon what might be called "encountering" as it is directed at objects and, correlatively, upon "objects as they are encountered". This terminology may not be widely shared, but the emphasis on a dual problematics and the reflective approach it requires IS;
- how we will incorproate the role of description in universal, a priori, or eidetic terms as prior to explanation, especially in disscussing our findings; and
- whether or not what Husserl calls the transcendental phenomenological epochê and reduction is useful or even possible, in the context of our project (CARP, January 13, 2005)