{"title":"On the Benefit of a Phenomenological Revision of Problem Solving","authors":"A. Wendt","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341330","url":null,"abstract":"Problem solving has been empirical psychology’s concern for half a century. Cognitive science’s work on this field has been stimulated especially by the computational theory of mind. As a result, most experimental research originates from a mechanistic approach that disregards genuine experience. On the occasion of a review of problem solving’s foundation, a phenomenological description offers fruitful perspectives. Yet, the mechanistic paradigm is currently dominant throughout problem solving’s established patterns of description. The review starts with a critical historical analysis of the state of problem solving in academic psychology. Subsequently, a phenomenological, contrastive approach is proposed. It questions the notion of problems as “goal-driven” behavior by making vivid experience the subject of discussion. As its given compounds, solvability, oppressiveness, and the problem’s horizon are discussed. Ultimately, an experience-based multimodal notion of the problem is elaborated that relates problems to challenges, fatalities and opportunities as different types of situations.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"240-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42606611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Subject of Aesthetics: A Psychology of Art and Experience, written by Tone Roald (2015)","authors":"A. Kordis","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"272-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47808324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Redirection of Psychology: Essays in Honor of Amedeo P. Giorgi, written by Thomas F. Cloonan & Christian Thiboutot (2010)","authors":"T. Beck","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"259-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44180857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A forgotten Freudian: The passion of Karl Stern, written by Daniel Burston (2016)","authors":"S. Halling","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"265-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45796955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Phenomenology of Anomalous World Experience in Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Study","authors":"E. Pienkos, S. Silverstein, L. Sass","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341328","url":null,"abstract":"This current study is a pilot project designed to clarify changes in the lived world among people with diagnoses within the schizophrenia spectrum. The Examination of Anomalous World Experience ( EAWE ) was used to interview ten participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders ( SZ ) and a comparison group of three participants with major depressive disorder ( DEP ). Interviews were analyzed using the descriptive phenomenological method. This analysis revealed two complementary forms of experience unique to SZ participants: Destabilization, the experience that reality and the intersubjective world are less comprehensible, less stable, and generally less real; and Subjectivization, the dominance of one’s internal, subjective experiences in the perception or interpretation of the lived world. Persons with depressive disorders, by contrast, did not experience disruptions of the reality or independence of the world or any significant disruptions of appearance or meaning. These results are consistent with contemporary and classic phenomenological views on anomalous world experience in schizophrenia.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"188-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42711291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Response to the Attempted Critique of the Scientific Phenomenological Method","authors":"Amedeo Giorgi","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341319","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, a book (details are given below) was published, the sole purpose of which was to discourage researchers from using the scientific phenomenological method. The author (Paley, 1997; 1998; 2000) had previously been critical of nurses who had used the scientific phenomenological method but in the new book he goes after the originators of different methods of scientific phenomenological research and attempts to criticize them severely. In this review I defend only the scientific phenomenological method that is strictly based upon the thought of Edmund Husserl. Given the entirely negative project of only critiquing phenomenologically grounded scientific research, one would expect the author to be sensitive to the cautions historians and philosophers of science speak about when one attempts to criticize concepts and procedures that belong to a different research community. Paley, an empiricist, uses empirical criteria to criticize phenomenological work.Moreover, given the entirely negative project of critiquing phenomenologically grounded scientific research one would expect the author to be knowledgeable about phenomenology and the innovative research practices used by a new research community. However, (1) the author has only a thin, superficial understanding of phenomenology (e.g., it is not a technology; Paley, 2017, 109). One gets the impression that he only reads phenomenology in order to critique it. He displays an outsider’s understanding of it which means that his criticisms of it are faulty because he does not know how to think and dwell within the phenomenological framework; (2) he does not understand “discovery-oriented” research and he keeps judging such research according to criteria from the “context of verification” perspective which are the wrong criteria for “discovery-oriented” research; (3) he denigrates and reduces nursing research strategies because he interprets them to be based on pragmatic motivations only. He does not even grant that nurses can have authentic scientific motivations for seeking phenomenologically based methods; (4) he uses unfair rhetorical strategies in the sense that he uses strategies himself that he criticizes when others use them. The review below documents what has been summarized here.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"83-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341319","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45820764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychotherapy for the Other: Levinas and the Face-to-Face Relationship, written by Kevin C. Krycka, George Kunz, & George G. Sayre","authors":"C. Thiboutot","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"155-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341325","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44743997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intuition in Mathematics: a Perceptive Experience","authors":"A. Van-Quynh","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341320","url":null,"abstract":"This study applied a method of assisted introspection to investigate the phenomenology of mathematical intuition arousal. The aim was to propose an essential structure for the intuitive experience of mathematics. To achieve an intersubjective comparison of different experiences, several contemporary mathematicians were interviewed in accordance with the elicitation interview method in order to collect pinpoint experiential descriptions. Data collection and analysis was then performed using steps similar to those outlined in the descriptive phenomenological method that led to a generic structure that accounts for the intuition surge in the experience of mathematics which was found to have four irreducible structural moments. The interdependence of these moments shows that a perceptualist view of intuition in mathematics, as defended by Chudnoff (Chudnoff, 2014), is relevant to the characterization of mathematical intuition. The philosophical consequences of this generic structure and its essential features are discussed in accordance with Husserl’s philosophy of ideal objects and theory of intuition.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"1-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341320","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45519792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interiority, Exteriority and the Realm of Intentionality","authors":"P. Ashworth","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341321","url":null,"abstract":"The realm of intentionality is definitive of phenomenology as a reflective methodology. Yet it is precisely the focus on the intentional given that has been condemned recently. Speculative realism (e.g. Meillassoux, 2008/2006) argues that phenomenology is unsatisfactory since the reduction to the intentional realm excludes the 'external', i.e. reality independent of consciousness. This criticism allows me to clarify the nature of intentionality. Material phenomenology finds, in contrast, that the intentional realm excludes the 'inner' ('auto-affective life' - Henry, 1973/1963). This criticism allows me to discuss the way in which ipseity enters as an element of experience. Intentionality, viewed psychologically, is rightly the distinct arena of phenomenological psychology. However, there is no doubting the difficulty of maintaining a research focus precisely on the realm of intentionality; there are aporias of the reduction. I discuss some of the difficulties.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"39-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48073771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health, written by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson, Constance A. Cummings","authors":"M. G. Henriksen","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"48 1","pages":"149-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41379250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}