Philosophy as Ideology

Recovering the Original Phenomenological Research Method: An Exploration of Husserl, Yoga, Buddhism, and New Frontiers in Humanistic Counseling

“…This is not to say, however, that efforts toward accurate description should be abandoned entirely, of course. Husserl believed that phenomenological researchers should make every effort to accurately describe their intuitive encounters with the world and then compare notes with each other (see Bartlett, , ). This requires staying outside the natural attitude with a minimum of interpretation, staying as close to description as possible.…”

“…The phenomenological investigation would require choosing a particular phenomenon to study and then having each coresearcher report his or her experience of the epoché, eidetic reduction, and transcendental reduction so as to compare notes, as intended by Husserl (see Bartlett, ). Take empathy, for example.…”

Psychological Underpinnings of Philosophy

“…In another paper in this journal (Bartlett 1986), I looked at ways in which philosophical positions become self-encapsulating ideologies, and examined why it is that communication between philosophical standpoints is so difficult.…”

Epistemological Intelligence

“…Given philosophy's fundamental credo that an unexamined life-even one that remains unexamined from a psychological perspective-is undesirable, in what follows I shall try to summarize some of these main psychological results that apply specifically to the philosophical enterprise and to the individual psychology of many philosophers and of many students attracted to philosophical study. By doing this, we shall be able to throw some light on the specific skills I have 12 Bartlett (1986aBartlett ( , 1986bBartlett ( , 1989 clustered under the heading of epistemological intelligence, and explain the wide variability of those skills among individuals.…”

“…In Bartlett (1986a), I directed attention to several forms of defensiveness exhibited by many philosophers:…”