Intersubjectivity and Second-Person Perspective

Abstract

What is phenomenology? There have been books written on this question, including books by some of the major figures in this philosophical tradition. Let's start by taking a look at some of the recent definitions. Phenomenology is the study of human experience and of the ways things present themselves to us in and through such experience (Sokolowski 2000, 2). Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. (Smith 2008)