You're the only person to explain this in a way that I understand. And it's surprising how simple the concept actually is, with what kind of radically different perspective it entails. Cool stuff.

I had passed by this video numerous times thinking how could anyone possibly say anything significant about Husserl and phenomenology in less than twelve minutes? Then I figured what the heck I might as well give it a viewing. Wow! This is, if you’ll excuse the pun, phenomenal! This is clearer and more accurate than videos I’ve watched that were much longer. What a superb job. If I hadn’t seen it, I still wouldn’t believe such an excellent explanation could be provided in such a brief amount of time.

Bruh, I've been in a doctoral program for 4 years, and this is easily the best, most concise, and most comprehensive explanation of phenomenology I've ever heard!!!! Thank you!!!!

Simplified but comprehensive. Great work. I have a better grasp of phenomenology now. Thanks!

What a wonderfull gift, you have mastered the world's most difficult task. To achieve brevity and simplicity in the presentation of such a complex topic. Well done 💯 It was pleasure to follow.. Greatings form Norway

Absolutely perfect....12 minutes plus reading the slides, over and over....so rich!

Great video. I'm reading "Crisis" and writing a philosophical exam project, arguing for a more nuanced scientific understanding of consciousness through (Husserl's) phenomenology. This was just what I needed to collect my thoughts around it, so thank you very much.

You did a phenomenal job! I went to this video as a precursor to reading Ideas, I like to get a general framework of an authors ideas before embarking on their works to have a better basis for understanding the content, you did a great job, and I appreciate it!

Thank you for creating this video and making it available to us. You made phenomenology easier to understand.

Thank you he was one of my favorites when I was in college and your explanation is much more approachable when I explained to my son this past week!

Hello Mr. Dodson, When I was a young man, a friend and mentor of mine, a professor of psychology, asked me to look up the subjects of phenomenology and existentialism and, when I was ready, tell him how I thought they were, if at all, related. I spent quite some time reading through my book-of-month-club encyclopedias of philosophy before I gave my answer. If only KZfaq and your video on the subject had been available then! I liked physics and philosophy so I broke it down like this: In physics, time is motion. If nothing is moving, then nothing is happening. if nothing is happening, then there are no events and if there are no events, then there is no meaningful way of discerning time. This is why Einstein said that your time and my time are a function of the speed at which we are MOVING relative to one another. Motion implies room to move a.k.a space thus space/time" (Einstein was a bit more elaborate) Nonetheless, that is not what 'time is like' for me. indeed, the time and space of this self-referential person (referring to myself) have greater primacy than the space/time of physics for without the former I cannot discover the latter. BTW: Our existential errand ought to be to understand that we are umbilically wedded to the world in which we live rather than to waste our lives objectifying it.

Holy Husserl Batman! This is definitely a feat worthy of a SuperPower! But I have always suspected behind your mild-mannered persona of a humble professor lurks an intellectual hero. Bravo, and thanks for a condensed explication on a very dense and difficult philosopher.. As always, your insight is appreciated,and I continue to learn from you.

if i pass the exam tomorrow i'm buying you a beer

These are really good. Having just watched several hours of intro to philosophers on youtube, yours are, to me, the most helpful. Thank you!

I'm not even an english speaker but since there's no good content about this subject in portuguese, here I am, trying to understand phenomenology. Thanks for the video!

It is a bit of an adventure lol. Phenomenology was a bit of a saving grace to me with respect to earlier schools of thought being taught...in school (college). I initially got into philosophy because of Stoicism and after learning everything else, philosophy started to become kind of stale to me. That is until I read one of those books spanning all philosophy and stumbled across Phenomenology, which was basically mentioned as a mere footnote in my curriculum. And so it was Phenomenology that pulled me back in! I think one of the coolest facts is that Franz Brentano taught Husserl, Freud, and Rudolf Steiner. It's crazy how from Brentano's teachings each of these guys splinter off into their own with Husserl and Steiner staying more true to the lessons and building off of them while Freud I believe corrupts the teachings and their true meaning.

These are great! I chuckled a little at 12 minutes, hell, I've been studying Husserl for 12 years and I'm still unfolding his thought.

Finally, husserl has clicked in my brain. THANK YOU!!

Thank you for you time and effort in doing this video. I think it is absolutely brilliant, short and to the point. You make it so clear and easy to understand. Thx.

This video is great, I really appreciate this. Short, precise and with much clarity. Currently I'm taking a class in phenomenology and this helped me sort a few things out! Thanks man.

An excellent summary. Clear and accessible!! Thank you for posting!!

This was so concise and valuable! A big thank you from me!

A really clear, straight-forward explanation. Very helpful. Thanks for providing this.

Thank you. So much. My mind was spinning when I tried reading encyclopedias about him.

such clarity... awesome job! Thanks a million!

i wish i had found your video earlier! thank you for making this!

Currently trying to wrap my head around Husserl at University. Fantastic video - great use of Louis Wain's cat paintings to illustrate Imaginary Variation!

thank u so much for sharing.. I love the way u pack so much into a small amount of time. excited/grateful to keep watching what u post

This video is put together extremely well, thank you so much!

Amazing that you pack this much into 12 minutes. Bravo!

You sir... Thank you! *hugs Eric Dodson while crying*

I really enjoyed your presentation Eric! Thank you!!

I have understood noesis and noema so easily . Thanks .

This is an excellent, concise and well understandable introduction. Thank you very much!

I wish I could say thank you.

This video is truly fantastic. Thank you so much for your endeavors here on KZfaq!

Just love the opening music 👌

Great, rich work; I really studied in detail. Thank you very much!

This was very informative and easy to mentally digest. Thank you!

Thank you, this was an excellent watch.

Thanks Eric. I feel these are important subjects for humanity in general, not just for scholars, so it's great to find them in such accessible form.

Thanks very much for the neat intro. Much appreciated.

i really like the way you explain these things. thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this! you definitely helped me pass my mid-term!

So very good. Says 12min but took 90min for me because was taking so many notes on all the presented information. Being a laymen myself, this was defiantly worth watching.

Always love your visual aids...bravo!

Bless this man

Thank you! This is great!

I loved it! I've been puzzled with this kind of questions and problems and there's no way out of it. just because we are condemned to be human. Why people are so ignorant?!

Great video, many thanks.

Great video! Thanks for sharing

Hi Eric, Thanks for clearing a path through the fog that often surrounds this subject - this video is great!!!! Have you considered doing videos that expand on this, something like, 'Heidegger - further adventures in phenomenology'?... Again, thanks so much for taking the time to make and distribute this vid!! Tim

nicely done!!! Thank you for your explanation!

Useful for my students in HTM228. Thank you Eric.

Thanks a lot for the clear lecture on the difficult subject

Great video and explanation. thanks for making this video

I really like the last part... explaining the crisis of modern world and existential threat posed to humanity as a result of placing too much emphasis on objectivity and forgetting or neglecting the subject altogether in natural sciences and philosophy as well as mother of all these sciences.

Great demonstration! You saved a lot of student crisis.

Excellent work.

Thanks a lot for this great & clear video about Husserl and his difficult phenomenology! Greetings from Madrid / Antonia

nice video. there is a difference between “a dollar” and, say, a presentation titled “The Power Of A Single Dollar” which explores the phenomenon of any given dollar as a battery of potential. just thought i’d share that insight, it just flashed to me 💵

thanks so much, prof Dodson!

Perfect, very clear and short. Just perfect ! (At least this is how I experience it )

Great explanation. Thank you!

Haven't studied Husserl for ages, so really enjoyed this. My thought was that it could be 'bookended' by explaining Husserl's grounds for exploring the ideas behind phenomenology in the first place: that the positive sciences had failed in their prejudice towards intersubjectively validating observations. This links up with the societal 'crisis' discussed at the end.

"The intentionality of consciousness" -- Husserl Thesis is dual to anti-thesis -- The time independent Hegelian dialectic. Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not alive (anti-thesis, non being) -- Schrodinger's or Hegel's cat. Teleological physics (syntropy, intentionality) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy, information). Integration is dual to differentiation Syntropy is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics! Syntropy is the integration, convergence or union of information to form predictions or expectations which are used to track targets, teleology. Reality is predicted into existence, consciousness is an active process. Gravitation is equivalent or dual to acceleration -- Einstein's happiest thought Potential energy is dual to kinetic energy, energy is inherently dual. Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein Dark energy is dual to dark matter Space is dual to time -- Einstein Certainty is dual to uncertainty, the Heisenberg certainty/uncertainty principle. Duality creates reality!

This was very helpful. Thank you very much!

This one is very good. Thanks!

Excellent - thank you.

Reading a deconstruction on Satres BN and it goes to show how consciousness as a phenomena elusively escapes a proper definition and meaning worthy of the spectacular essence of consciousness between reality and the transcendental state of being to the observer.

Thanks good job! Someone else who had joined the dots of the roots of the ever crazier crises of the west...

i m starting to love psychology and philosophy because of your videos and great explanations!

most awesome explanation...thankyou so much...

Time just flew by watching this

thank u so much indeed for ur deep&splendid explanation about what phenomenolgy mean? since the word is too trouble to understand alone, but u provided supporting documetary videos to have genniune insight abt the concept. finally, i would like thank from the bottom of my heart since i have thought more than enough from u. Thanks! once again.

Hi there Eric, thank you for the great introduction. Is there a possibility for you to explain how the phenomenological method is applied by the different authors, like for instance Paul Ricoeur? Again thank you, I enjoyed your video.

I appreciate that presenting such an account as this is very difficult in so brief a frame, but there is here a glaring though quite common error about Husserl's phenomenology that could very likely have been avoided. Husserl did NOT consider his phenomenology to be based upon reflective (introspective) experience. He DID think pure reflective perception to be possible; he thought it achievable through what he called psychological reduction. However, the very next step, eidetic reduction, was meant to enable the investigation to move beyond introspection. He believed sustained and detailed introspection and description of what is given introspectively to be quite impossible. EIDETIC REDUCTION. Eidetic reduction is the procedure through which it becomes possible imaginatively to vary reflectively perceived instances of phenomena of the sort under investigation. As long as these are taken just as they are given they are not susceptible to imaginative variation. Their being varied in fantasy fosters, facilitates recognition of kinds of features that are exemplified by all the imagined variations of the initial example; the fictive varying of the examples facilitates grasping a set of universals that each of the examples instantiates. Grasping members of this set leads to the insight that whatever is like the initial example in the relevant way will necessarily exemplify each of the members of a certain definite set of universals. Through quasi-experiencing the examples (i.e., fantasying them as if they were experienced), singular or universal eidetic objects come to be intuited more clearly than heretofore. This account of eidetic reduction occurs in an extensive set of "Notes on the Work of Edmund Husserl" that can be found on line at: phenomenology.x10host.com/W-NotesHUS.HTML#E_eidetic_reduction. This URL will probably take one only to the relevant page on the site. The page includes a list of entries, and its items are linked to the entries.

Eric, can you direct me to some accessible resources, such as this video, on this subject for further inspection and clarity? Is there an interpretation of Husserl I should get my hands on? I study this independently as part of an Esoteric self-initiation. I am specifically interested in the methodologies of phenomenological investigation. I seek to penetrate into what's called the 'subtle body'. Your kindness is felt, thank you for providing clarity on such important matters. Looking forward to your response.

Fantastic.

Thanks for the Video!

BRAVO!!! AND THANK YOU

thank you so much for this! I have an exam on friday and this finally made me understand the topic :) Greetings from holland!

thanks for another educational video

Thanks, sir!

This is great. I have totally forgotten it already, even though I have just watched it. I will have to watch it again! Also. I said to a Xenomorph that I loved them. But they gave me no Ripley...

brilliant, thanks !

I reading different philosophical concepts we see a relative pattern of thought. Getting familiar with the ontological aspects associated with the particular philosophical idea your studying you'll begin to connect familiar dots .Ideas such as negation,nihilism, dialectic, all have existential and phenomenological properties used to support a new or refined position of an old idea.

wow this was well done, thanks

thank you so much!

So, what is the difference between a phenomenological investigative approach to life and, say, Buddhist Mindful Awareness?

If I want to start with husserl, merleau ponty, and heidegger in the study of phenomenology what should I have read under my belt before getting into this?

Bravo!!

Which book on Phenomenological Psychology would you most recommend? thank you!

Thanks, this explanation will go into my PhD dissertation... with credits of course.

good video!

You are a great explainer! It would be even better if the words are clearer on the background which is full of pictures. Thank you!

Is it possible to give lengthy videos on time&being prof Eric Dodson?

are there any sample literary piece that involves phenomenological approach/analysis?

I wonder how these philosophers found time to ponder these existential questions (for decades, as it appears), inbetween their occupation bringing food on the table.

It is still well articulated.