Jeff, List, JBD: Some have suggested that the aim of phenomenology is to provide an analysis and account of human consciousness. Peirce made a sharp distinction between phaneroscopy, the science that provides the raw data for all the empirical sciences, and psychology, which is one of the psychic sciences. He had a high regard for the work in psychology by William James, but he did not consider James a phenomenologist. Issues about unconscious processes would be a task for psychology, not phenomenology. JBD: The business of the phenomenology, I believe, is to provide resources and techniques needed to make more exacting analysis of scientific observations. Careful phenomenological analysis puts scientists in a better position to develop models, make measurements and frame hypotheses. I agree. JBD: Assuming this is on the right track, what should we say about unconscious forms of bias and prejudice that might effect the validity of reasoning? Does phenomenology supply us with the resources needed to analyze such forms of bias and prejudice? The analysis and evaluation of truth, bias, and prejudice is a task forthe normative sciences. A psychologist might discover evidence of unsconscious bias. But the use of that evidence for evaluating truth would be a task for methodeutic, not phaneroscopy. John
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