11 The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method A m e d e o G i o r g i , B a r b r o G i o r g i †1 a n d J a m e s M o r l e y Phenomenology is a philosophy that began in movement, almost every follower of his deviated 1900 with the publication of Logical Investigations from him in some manner or other.

An affirmation of the phenomenological psychological descriptive method: a response to Rennie (2012). It is claimed that the undertaking of a psychological investigation at large can be considered interpretive but that when the phenomenological method based upon Husserl is employed, it is descriptive. Expand

Hence, if one is following Husserlian descriptive phenomenological philosophy as a basis for a phenomenologi-cal theory of science, both the data collection and the data analysis need to follow descriptive phenomenology in order to achieve rigor.

In other words, the interpretative strategy of bringing in hypotheses, theories, existential assumptions, and so on is not appropriate for the descriptive method following a Husserlian phenomenological approach towards human scientic research.