#lester embree

[anaxerneas]

As we have seen, phenomenology means literally the science of Phenomena: the science which studies appearances, and specifically the structure of appearing - the how of appearing — giving the phenomena or manifest appearances their due, remaining loyal to the modes of appearance of things in the world, whether they belong to the physical, mathematical, cultural, aesthetic, religious, or other domains. The phenomena of phenomenology are to be understood in a deliberately broad sense as including all forms of appearing, showing, manifesting, making evident or ‘evidencing’, bearing witness, truth-claiming, checking and verifying, including all forms of seeming, dissembling, occluding, obscuring, denying and falsifying. In short, phenomenology studies, in the words of the contemporary French phenomenologist Michel Henry, the essence of manifestation, or, as the American phenomenologist Lester Embree puts it, the varieties of evidencing.

Dermot Moran and Timothy Mooney, Editor’s Introduction to The Phenomenology Reader

[anaxerneas]

On my view at least, a reflective analysis is not, sensu strictu, an argument but rather a descriptive narrative at the end of which the reader has deeper insight into the things in question and not a deduced conclusion. Like avoidance of scholarship, to avoid what can be called "premise hunting" may go against one's training, but now I ask that one consider that there is a third approach in which neither logical form nor the opinions of others are central.

Lester Embree on phenomenological description, from "Temporary Home Bases: Reflective Analysis of A Way to Compose Reflective Analyses"