We know about our immediate environment-about the people, animals, and things around us-by having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we know about abstract reality-about mathematics, morality, and metaphysics-by having intuitions, which can be thought of as inte[...]
Phenomenology is about subjective aspects of the mind, such as the conscious states associated with vision and touch, and the conscious states associated with emotions and moods, such as feelings of elation or sadness. These states have a distinctive first-person 'feel' to them, called their phenome[...]