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phenomenologist

phenomenologist

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A person who studies how people experience things
  • noun
  • /fəˌnɒməˈnɒlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
: fenomenólogo
  • As a phenomenologist, her research emphasized understanding personal experiences and feelings.
  • phenomenologist and theorist

That is Heidegger, but also Husserl, two other great phenomenologists.

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Examples

  • A phenomenologist studies how individuals perceive reality in their daily lives.

  • Phenomenologists recognize that many day-to-day behaviors are habitual.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Pierre Huyghe is the phenomenologist of this upside-down world.

    Academic text (2004)
  • And I've got a piece on Aristotle and some phenomenologists coming out in a book.

  • The phenomenologist will have to confront the cultural aspect of the "always already thereness" of the intentional world.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Feminists and phenomenologists, among other philosophical theorists, have been very critical of "principlist" ethics, which stress the importance of principles like autonomy.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The phenomenologist focused on the subjective experiences of people during the workshop.

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Morphology

phenomenologist = phenomenology (transparent) = phenomenon + logy + ist

Adding '-ist' to the base word 'phenomenology' straightforwardly forms a person noun meaning someone who studies that field.

Etymology

Phenomenologist combines phenomenon, which originally meant 'something that appears' and comes from the Greek root phainein 'to show', with the ending -ologist meaning 'someone who studies'. So a phenomenologist is a person who studies how things appear to people and how we experience them.