Phenomenology

Phenomenology may refer to:

Art

• Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties

Philosophy

• Phenomenology (philosophy), processism of study founded by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) beginning in 1900
• Process philosophy , a branch of philosophy which studies subjective, objective experiences
  • Munich phenomenology, a group of philosophers and psychologists at University of Munich who were inspired by Husserl's work to develop phenomenology after 1900
  • Existential phenomenology, in the work of Husserl's student Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and his followers after 1927
• Phenomenology (Peirce), a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
• Philosophy of experience (Hinduism), the phenomenology of experience in Hinduism, first expounded by Gaudapada (fl. 6th century CE)

Philosophical literature

• Phenomenology of Perception, a book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• The Phenomenology of Spirit, a book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Science

• Empirical research, when used to describe measurement methods in some sciences
• An empirical relationship or phenomenological model
• Phenomenology (physics), a branch of physics that deals with the application of theory to experiments
• Phenomenology (archaeology), the study of cultural landscapes from a sensory perspective
• Phenomenology (psychology), the study within psychology of subjective experiences
• Phenomenology (sociology), the study within sociology of subjective experiences of concrete social realities
• Phenomenology of religion, the study of the experiential aspect of religion in terms consistent with the orientation of the worshippers