CB: I was looking a Husserl. Phenonmenology strikes me as the same as positivism. But then he claims it is different. It's hard for me to see where there is room for being anything else, if one is so focussed on phenomena and still reject Hegel/Marx approach of looking beyond appearances. - -------------------------- Positivists limit the data acceptable for consideration to sense data. Phenomenologists admit a whole tapestry of material to be discussed; anything that can become an object of consciousness, which is a lot more than just sense data -- memories, moods, the experience of time, religious experience, social relations, etc.
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CB: This sounds like Phenomenologists don't have any particular focus on phenomena ? Whence the name ?