The phenomenological and the psychological approach to consciousness

pp. 40-57

in: Maurice Natanson (ed), Essays in phenomenology, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1966

Abstract

Both phenomenology and psychology are concerned with consciousness in general as well as with specific acts of consciousness like perception, memory, comprehension of meaning, reasoning, etc. Yet, the theoretical orientation and perspective in which consciousness is studied in psychology is highly different from that of phenomenology.