Epistemological Issues in Phenomenological Research
How Authoritative Are People's Accounts of their own Perceptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11951475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bas Levering (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 451-462 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2006.00531.x |
| OpenAlex | W2157070629 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Science tends to find a solution to the problem of the unreliability of human perception by understanding objectivity as the absence of subjectivity. However, from a phenomenological point of view, subjectivity is not so much a problem as an inevitable starting-point. That does not mean that the problem of the correctness of people’s accounts of their own perceptions is no problem at all—in fact the problem is so great that the authority of a person’s knowledge of his or her own mind can be doubted. The problem of subjectivity can only be solved when it is related to the problem of interpretation. Analyses of narratives are interpretations of interpretations. The phenomenologist must make sure that the data he or she analyses are lived interpretations and not interpretations of interpretations
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |