Phenomenology may refer to:

Art

Phenomenology (architecture) Phenomenology in architecture can be understood as a discursive and realist attempt to understand and embody the philosophical insights of phenomenology. According to Dan Zahavi:Phenomenology shares the conviction that the critical stance proper ...

, based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties

Philosophy

Phenomenology (philosophy) Phenomenology (from Greek φαινόμενον, ''phainómenon'' "that which appears" and λόγος, ''lógos'' "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. As a philosophical movement it was founded i ...

, a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a methodology of study founded by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) beginning in 1900 **

Munich phenomenology Munich phenomenology (also Munich phenomenological school) is the philosophical orientation of a group of philosophers and psychologists that studied and worked in Munich at the turn of the twentieth century. Their views are grouped under the names ...

, a group of philosophers and psychologists at

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's List of universities in Germany, sixth-oldest u ...

who were inspired by Husserl's work to develop phenomenology after 1900 **

Existential phenomenology Existential phenomenology encompasses a wide range of thinkers who take up the view that philosophy must begin from experience like phenomenology, but argues for the temporality of personal existence as the framework for analysis of the human condi ...

, in the work of Husserl's student Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and his followers after 1927 *

Phenomenology (Peirce) The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) did considerable work over a period of years on the classification of sciences (including mathematics). His classifications are of interest both as a map for navigating his philosophy and as an ...

, a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) *

Philosophy of experience (Hinduism) The Upanishadic philosophy of experience expounded by Gaudapada is based on the cryptic references made by the sage of the Mandukya Upanishad to the experience of the individual self of its own apparent manifestations in the three fundamental st ...

, the phenomenology of experience in Hinduism, first expounded by Gaudapada ()

Philosophical literature

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Phenomenology of Perception ''Phenomenology of Perception'' (french: Phénoménologie de la perception) is a 1945 book about perception by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in which the author expounds his thesis of "the primacy of perception". The work establish ...

'', a book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty * ''

The Phenomenology of Spirit ''The Phenomenology of Spirit'' (german: Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the most widely-discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; its German title can be translated as either ''The Phenomenology of Spirit'' or ''The Phenomen ...

'', a book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Science

Empirical research Empirical research is research using empirical evidence. It is also a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empiricism values some research more than other kinds. Empirical evidence (the record of one ...

, when used to describe measurement methods in some sciences * An

empirical relationship In science, an empirical relationship or phenomenological relationship is a relationship or correlation that is supported by experiment and observation but not necessarily supported by theory. Analytical solutions without a theory An empirical rel ...

phenomenological model A phenomenological model is a scientific model that describes the empirical relationship of phenomena to each other, in a way which is consistent with fundamental theory, but is not directly derived from theory. In other words, a phenomenological ...

Phenomenology (physics) In physics, phenomenology is the application of theoretical physics to experimental data by making quantitative predictions based upon known theories. It is related to the Phenomenology (philosophy), philosophical notion of the same name in that ...

, a branch of physics that deals with the application of theory to experiments *

Phenomenology (archaeology) In archaeology, phenomenology is the application of sensory experiences to view and interpret an archaeological site or cultural landscape in the past. It views space as socially produced and is concerned with the ways people experience and underst ...

, the study of cultural landscapes from a sensory perspective *

Phenomenology (psychology) Phenomenology within psychology, or phenomenological psychology, is the psychological study of subjective experience. It is an approach to psychological subject matter that attempts to explain experiences from the point of view of the subject via ...

, the study within psychology of subjective experiences *

Phenomenology (sociology) Phenomenology within sociology (phenomenological sociology) is the study of the formal structures of concrete social existence as made available in and through the analytical description of acts of intentional consciousness. The object of such ...

, the study within sociology of subjective experiences of concrete social realities *

Phenomenology of religion The phenomenology of religion concerns the experiential aspect of religion, describing religious phenomena in terms consistent with the orientation of worshippers. It views religion as made up of different components, and studies these components a ...

, the study of the experiential aspect of religion in terms consistent with the orientation of the worshippers {{disambiguation