Beschreibung

For Husserl  , phenomenology proceeds through exact description (Beschreibung) rather than explanation (Erklärung). In this regard, Husserl   is following in the tradition of Brentano  ’s descriptive psychology. In Ideas I § 60, Husserl   characterizes phenomenology as a ‘purely descriptive eidetic doctrine of the immanental consciousness formations’. It is not interested in generating theories or importing hypotheses from other fields; neither does it attempt causal explanation. In general, it also seeks to avoid inferences and instead focuses on what is directly given in intuition. Phenomenology aims to describe experience in a non-reductive manner and especially to pay attention to the role of subjectivity in the constitution of objectivity. Husserl   believes the empiricists rightly emphasized description but erroneously allowed prejudices to interfere with the description. Noematic description involves focusing on the objectively meant phenomenon precisely as it is meant and avoiding subjective expressions (see Ideas I § 130). Husserl  ’s Logical Investigations aims at a descriptive investigation [82] of the lived experiences involved in logical judgements and in the apprehension of ideal objectivities. [Dermot Moran   and Joseph Cohen]

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