Husserl’s last wish: ‘What is Research?’ A Culturometric homage to Phenomenology
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1053
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Event
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Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
This is a practical research presentation of a metaphysical motivation. Husserl was born in what is now the Czech Republic. His life goal was to place the humanities and the sciences on a common foundation of logical rigour. However, an unsolved epistemological problem inherited from his teacher Brentano (how do we believe in reality?) split his Phenomenology into two paths; a Phenomenological Psychology Reduction leading to science and a Transcendental Phenomenology Reduction leading to philosophy. 79 years later, he was dying stateless in Freiburg, Germany. So much water had passed under so many bridges and still his problem remained unsolved. In this presentation Culturometrics gives a secular answer to the question ‘What is Research’ – in the spirit of Weierstrass, Lipps and Wundt; Husserl’s mentors. It clarifies confusions of the mixed methods literature giving foundational distinctions between qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. From these foundations it proposes an elegant definition of research which is unpacked using Husserl’s Phenomenological methods of Psychology Reduction and Transcendental Reduction. Then, using ideas from evolutionary psychology that were not yet available to Husserl, it solves the epistemological problem so Husserl’s paths can converge and lead to suggested futures of research that he might have envisaged. (200 words)
Bibliography
Cook, L.D. & Boufoy-Bastick, B. (Series editors). (Forthcoming). Annotated Research in the Caribbean: Book 1 For the Quantitative Researcher. Book 2 For the Qualitative Researcher. Book 3 For the Mixed Methods Researcher. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Publishing.
Spiegelberg, E. (Ed.). (2012). The phenomenological movement: A historical introduction (Vol. 5). Springer Science & Business Media.
Theodorou, P. (2015). Husserl and Heidegger on Reduction, Primordiality, and the Categorial: Phenomenology: Beyond Its Original Divide (Vol. 83). Springer.
Husserl’s last wish: ‘What is Research?’ A Culturometric homage to Phenomenology
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This is a practical research presentation of a metaphysical motivation. Husserl was born in what is now the Czech Republic. His life goal was to place the humanities and the sciences on a common foundation of logical rigour. However, an unsolved epistemological problem inherited from his teacher Brentano (how do we believe in reality?) split his Phenomenology into two paths; a Phenomenological Psychology Reduction leading to science and a Transcendental Phenomenology Reduction leading to philosophy. 79 years later, he was dying stateless in Freiburg, Germany. So much water had passed under so many bridges and still his problem remained unsolved. In this presentation Culturometrics gives a secular answer to the question ‘What is Research’ – in the spirit of Weierstrass, Lipps and Wundt; Husserl’s mentors. It clarifies confusions of the mixed methods literature giving foundational distinctions between qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. From these foundations it proposes an elegant definition of research which is unpacked using Husserl’s Phenomenological methods of Psychology Reduction and Transcendental Reduction. Then, using ideas from evolutionary psychology that were not yet available to Husserl, it solves the epistemological problem so Husserl’s paths can converge and lead to suggested futures of research that he might have envisaged. (200 words)
Bibliography
Cook, L.D. & Boufoy-Bastick, B. (Series editors). (Forthcoming). Annotated Research in the Caribbean: Book 1 For the Quantitative Researcher. Book 2 For the Qualitative Researcher. Book 3 For the Mixed Methods Researcher. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Publishing.
Spiegelberg, E. (Ed.). (2012). The phenomenological movement: A historical introduction (Vol. 5). Springer Science & Business Media.
Theodorou, P. (2015). Husserl and Heidegger on Reduction, Primordiality, and the Categorial: Phenomenology: Beyond Its Original Divide (Vol. 83). Springer.
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