Title:	ATTAINING SCIENTIFIC RIGOUR IN SOCIO-TECHNICAL RESEARCH WITH HUSSERL'S DESCRIPTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY
Author(s):	Gianni Jacucci
ISBN:	978-989-8704-56-6
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell
Year:	2024
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Descriptive Phenomenology, Socio Technical Research, Qualitative Research, Epistemology, Scientific Rigour, Methodology
Type:	Full
First Page:	95
Last Page:	105
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Socio-Technical (S-T) research, being a human science, places paramount importance on subjective data, as "facts-in-the-conscience." Husserl's phenomenology presents itself as the fitting philosophical foundation for addressing these "facts-in-the-conscience" across all human sciences. This line of reasoning gives rise to thought-provoking inquiries. How do we appropriately handle these facts-in-the-conscience? How can we effectively harness Husserl's phenomenology? Should we emulate Amedeo Giorgi and adopt his Husserlian Descriptive Phenomenological Method (DPM), a method tailored to establish a scienti ic foundation for psychological research? Could DPM serve as the pathway to validate "facts-in-the-conscience" as legitimate data for constructing Evidence-Based Proofs? What else do we need to control subjectivity? In Heidegger's words: "How do we teach each other speak objectively about these subjective things?" We describe an example that offers insights into "eidetic"1 responses to these inquiries. Namely, we introduce an approach based on gathering pronunciations of members of a Community of Practice, on their experience of phenomena in their professional field, expressed in the language of their profession: the Query Experiment (QE). This procedure satisfies the requirements for scientific rigour dictated by Descriptive Phenomenology. We conclude that QEs offer the avenue to attain rigorous scientific answers to S-T Research questions.
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