Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?
To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.
Husserl
Opening into the dog; how phenomenology gives us fresh eyes
Phenomenology can seem like a lot of long words and concepts but it’s really a process for seeing the world as it is.
How does phenomenology generate knowledge?
Too often, phenomenology is made into a step-by-step process that claims a knowledge outcome. Knowledge, however, in a phenomenological study, is an altogether different beast.
What can you do with a Stupid Detector?
A lot of what is ‘peer-reviewed’ and published as phenomenology is, my stupid detector reports, stupid. But why?
Touched and touching: beyond neural evidence models
Some things do not ask to be explained, but understood. Cognitive models of touch, philosophy of mind and consciousness studies fail us.
Phenomenology & Description I
Despite phenomenology being a practice of written description, few textbooks and critical works discuss how to write a phenomenological description.
