Phenomenology has played, and continues to play, a central role in understandings of education. When the history of phenomenology is discussed, it is common to reference names that appear among the greats of continental philosophy such as Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau Ponty, Levinas, and Sartre. Stating these names in such an order is not meant to suggest a neat linear progression of the development of phenomenology, but it does attest to a peculiarly European philosophical discourse. One philosopher who bucked this trend was Charles Peirce, whose phenomenological work was unconventional in American philosophy circles at the time. “Until the late thirties, phenomenology in today’s sense of the term was for American philosophy a ‘foreign affair.’ To this generalization there is only one possible exception: the phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce” (Spiegelberg 1956, p. 164).
Peirce considered phenomenology – he also referred to it as “phaneroscopy” (1931, p. 141) – to be one of...
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Quay, J. (2018). Peirce and Phenomenology. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_579-2
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