Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) was a German philosopher and the founder of phenomenology, a philosophical movement that emphasizes the study of conscious experience and the structures of experience as they present themselves to consciousness. His work sought to analyze and describe the phenomena of consciousness in a rigorous and systematic way. Husserl rejected psychologism—the idea that philosophical concepts should be grounded in psychological processes—and instead argued for a foundation in pure, first-person experience.