This course introduces students to the methods and central theses of phenomenology, one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20th Century. Some of the typical issues to be studied include: the distinction between reflective and lived experience, the nature of perception and embodied experience, the intersubjective construction of meaning, the breakdown of the subject/object dualism, and the temporal structure of human reality. Authors studied may include Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.